ATD: unanswered questions
Mark Kohut
markekohut at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 15 10:16:59 CDT 2008
I vote with you......
diagram the sentence.....write it with the clause from "with the sort, etc." removed...........
and one gets 'she was alone...to find herself pregnant at last".....no logical connection....makes the recurring dream clause meaningless if it does not apply to the long-suffering heroine.....
--- On Mon, 9/15/08, Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com> wrote:
> From: Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com>
> Subject: RE: ATD: unanswered questions
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Monday, September 15, 2008, 3:33 AM
> 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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