Lew and grace (spoilerish)

[Joseph T]

  Paul  suggested that, "Without wandering too far
from the schedule, one might note that Lew will, in the rest of the  
novel,
inhabits different fictional worlds."

Through the Dynamite door from a  near miss mayo massacre, to the bi- 
locating renfrew/werfner to hard bitten LA Detective he does seem to  
be actively fictionalizing his world. whether the fictions are more  
or less enlightening than things "exactly as they were" is up to the  
reader to guess. Perhaps the grace that reveals things to be exactly  
what they are is a grace Lew can't really accept.

Is all paranoia and all search for ultimate rational or irrational  
truth ( Lew investigates both)  just a refusal to accept the grace of  
things as they are because that doesn't put us at the lonely but ego  
inflating center of a hostile universe?  I'll have to get back to me  
on that one.