AtD (37) pp.1040 ff. Thoughts on Lew Basnight, detective.

[Mark Kohut]

Ah, so Lew 'detects' some of OBAs deep themes as he moves through the book?
Which itself makes a thematic point of playing it as it lays, so to speak, rather than forcing any Pretentious Meanings? 

TRPs sympathetic protagonists are NOT ego-driven, but receptive to things as they are?



--- On Mon, 7/21/08, Henry <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Henry <scuffling at gmail.com>
> Subject: RE: AtD (37) pp.1040 ff. Thoughts on Lew Basnight, detective.
> To: "'Pynchon Liste'" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Monday, July 21, 2008, 9:37 AM
> I don't see Lew as a seeker or even a fixer.  Detectives
> are NOT seekers.
> The "merely" detect, discover things that have
> been purposely hidden by
> others.
> 
> But, in true film noir tradition, Lew is sweethearts with
> broken-hearts
> (Bogey, anyone?); a very good guy who moves through, rather
> than moving the
> plot, all the while detecting, like a sensitive flame, what
> is already
> there.
> 
> Henry Mu 
> Information, Media, and Technology Consultant
> 
> http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/henrymu