Kick-Ass Thank You

[Tore Rye Andersen]

Jasper:

>I am curious why there were only a couple of comments on the last two 
>questions about character motivations and psychology (Why Lake + Deuce, and 
>why Lake thinks she's "bad").  I figured those would do a lot better than 
>the more abstract questions about mirroring and dreams and "Them".

Thanks for some ass-kicking hosting, Jasper. My fundament is all sore....

My own lack of reply to those last two questions has to do with the fact 
that I find Lake (and the Lake-related incidents) in AtD by far the LEAST 
interesting aspect of the novel. Mark's post about Pynchon's 
characterization (or lack of same) is spot on, at least with regard to Lake, 
who seems but a shallow variation of that great, full-bodied character from 
Vineland, Frenesi. I generally don't think Pynchon does bad characters - 
Frenesi, Slothrop, Mason and Dixon are IMHO as complex and interesting as 
any introspective character out of Roth or Bellow - but Lake indeed IS "bad" 
- not only a bad girl, but a bad character. Pynchon seems strangely 
uninterested in giving her a life of her own (as opposed to a lot of the 
other characters in AtD, such as Cyprian, Dally, or Stray, for instance.) 
I've been through AtD twice now, and both times I grew a bit impatient 
during the Lake sections, to be honest.

In short: my lack of reply in this particular instance had absolutely 
nothing to do with the quality of your questions, and everything to do with 
my lack of interest in Pynchon's shallow Lake (and boy, these are HARSH 
words from me - Like Robin pointed out a couple-three weeks ago, I tend to 
think Pynchon is made of Unobtainium, and I love AtD with a passion...)

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