AtD (37) 1040 ff. More on Lew Basnight

[Mark Kohut]

a DISCUSSION page on the wiki: 
 "Bas" in French means "low" and is related to the English "base" and "bass." Both the French and the English words signal not simply "low down," but also "deep"; we see this especially in music, with voices or instruments that are bass." I think that Lew may be, as mentioned above regarding the reality principle, so to speak, a kind of baseline in the novel. He explores some of the darkest [night] themes in AtD?

 

Lew is central to, at least, two MAJOR thematic meanings in 'Against the Day'...he survives a dynamite blast.....A-and, he gives us the AtD meaning of grace. He is key to 'getting AtD', I say. 

He is some kind of authorial certainty (re what?.