AtDTdA: (9) 262-265

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Admittedly, I'm bandying around the term "karma" like the ignorant western-hemispherean I am, but it seems as if Lake marrying Deuce instead of killing him creates a massive karma imbalance.  Question for those who know all that the term implies:  must karma be balanced at all times?  Wasn't the injustice of Lake's action, karma-wise, similar to the massive injustice looming in Europe?

Laura

>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>>Sent: May 23, 2007 3:57 PM
>>To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>>Subject: Re: AtDTdA: (9) 262-265
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>>Two partial answers to your questions.....I do not know why, human motivationally, Lake marries Deuce.  (a seaman deuce--V.--by the way is a seaman apprentice, so a Deuce Kindred is....pretty clear).   I do think, however, it is Pynchon's way of saying: Webb and his killers are kindred.....Webb, too, was a killer, as we know.
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>>  Having them join the bloodlines is almost too heavy a way to make the point.
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