Kick-Ass Thank You/more Lake

[bekah]

Yup.  Screwed.

Bekah

At 10:21 AM -0700 5/27/07, Ande wrote:
>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....
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>Ande
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>Tore Rye Andersen wrote:
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>>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?