ATDTDA (3) Dynamitic mania, 80-86

[Paul Mackin]

On Mar 1, 2007, at 1:30 PM, Joseph T wrote:

> I see Lake as an abuse vicim who gives up her identity for  
> numbness, misery and sex, because otherwise she is married to a  
> chickenshit hired killer who murdered her Father. Loyalty doesn't  
> seem like the right word. I see a lake  colonized by lies violence  
> and abuse and being filled with the poisons of industrial runoff,  
> fucked from all 4 directions. I care about her but her l"loyalty"  
> is her misery.  I guess this just shows how differently 2 people  
> can read any character. But I think Lake is a kind of example of  
> passivity, complicity, victimization.
> On Mar 1, 2007, at 4:30 AM, Paul Mackin wrote:
>  I did enjoy the way Lake was able to finally shed her old man. I  
> liked Lake. There was something very touching about her loyalty to  
> that marriage made in hell she'd gotten herself into.


Wish people wouldn't take me so literally. At this point in the  
discussion I  was desperately looking for someone in the book to  like.

But you are certainly correct enough in your description of her, as  
far as it goes.

P






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