Basnight miscellany

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

1) full name is Lewis (p38, line 8 "Never more, Lewis...."

2) according to Crowley (not sure where, maybe one of the Little Essays 
toward Truth?) a Lewis is the son of a master Mason 

3) p37, line 23 - "He became known as the Upstate-Downstate Beast"

Now color me Pynchomane, but I'm reminded of flip-flop in V.
Up-state & down-state - binary - bipolar - Jekyll/Hyde?  This also fits 
with the strong impression I got of his being co-present with Deuce...
and, osmotically by the laws of fiction, of Deuce's terrible crimes 
being part and parcel of Lew's mysterious transgression...they both 
partaking in different ways (along with Cyprian, and Oedipa Maas) of 
the archetype "detective" or "secret agents"

4) he left a note at work (p37,l35) suggesting he'd be back shortly - this 
was after he'd visited the various healers (cf Vineland's Dr Larry 
scenes, n'est ca pas, also later in the registration form at the hotel) - 
and also at home, left a "breezy" (38, 4) note that prompted his wife to 
ride the interurban into Chicago, thinking to fetch him back - ie, toward
the narrowing of possibilities, as instanced by the cattle en masse but 
also by the rejection/reflections she has en route)