final question re Lew B....

[Mark Kohut]

Remember the experts Lew went to? P. 37: "Past lives", some assured him. "Future lives." said other confident swamis. "Spontaneous Hallucination,"--[I love this one; what other kind of hallucination is there? LOL Psychobabble] diagnosed the more scientific among them. "Perhaps," one beaming Oriental suggested, "it was hallucinating you."...

As he has done before, Pynchon is indicting Us,-- me....for all the interpreting? 

As well as having Lew brush these off to show his pragmatic 'reality' here?


--- On Tue, 2/23/10, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: final question re Lew B....
> To: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 8:34 PM
> AtD seems to pretty openly play with
> the idea of alternate futures
> branching off from the present, all those roads not taken,
> different
> presents playing out simultaneously (eg. Candlebrow U)
> etc.
> 
> Maybe Lew's is an alternate past coming to catch up with
> him...
> Another Lew Basnight's history mysteriously intersecting
> with his own.
> He might protest "hey, I didn't!" - the universe answers
> "but someone
> did..."
> 
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > with that talk of some sin he doesn't even know about
> and Troth telling him about going back to his other wives
> and having 'destroyed his name' sez one.......
> >
> > Is his trip somehow into the past, his past?
> >
> > Is this sin he doesn't even know about his inherent
> vice? His 'original sin'?....
> >
> >
> >
> >
>