ATD: unanswered questions

[Tore Rye Andersen]

Bekah: 

> I figured Lake was pregnant at the end.
>
> " Instead she was alone with the sort of recurring dream a long-
> suffering movie heroine would expect to wake up from to find herself
> pregnant at last."

Hmm, I read this sentence differently: HAD Lake been a long-suffering movie heroine, 
and HAD AtD been a Hollywood movie, Lake would have woken up from her dream to find
herself pregnant at last. A lovely Hollywood ending, to be sure. But AtD is no movie and Lake no 
movie heroine. I think she remains barren to the end - Pynchon certainly meters out plenty of 
punishment for the other bad guys in AtD, and Lake's childlessness seems to be her punishment 
for betraying Webb.

Still, there's lots of room to wiggle around in in that sentence.
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