Kick-Ass Thank You/more Lake

[Ande]

I don't know if this has already been brought up--but in the "first 
impressions" school of lit crit---I read Lake as a "cautionary tale" -- 
challenge the corporate powers that be, throw bombs, and you will be 
hunted down, strung up, tortured and humiliated, your bones left to hang 
in the hot sun as a warning to others,  your sons and daughters seduced 
and defiled by your killers....

Ande



Tore Rye Andersen wrote:

> Bekah:
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>> I agree with you,  Tore,  that Lake is uninteresting and a kind of 
>> "bad" character - at least as a character.   But why do you think 
>> Pynchon included her in the way he did?   Was it a balance to 
>> something?  Was it to implicate the Gods?  Was it to throw some sex in?
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