More of a Reading of Lew Basnight, pt. 2

rich richard.romeo at gmail.com
Fri Feb 26 09:25:25 CST 2010


Lew's sexual sin?  that rather weird meeting with Lake at the end of the
novel--is it rape? I found it inexplicable

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Lew was denounced in the local papers. What do newsboys shout about that is
> in newspapers? Violence and scandals, I'd say. Murder and sex to pin it
> down.
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> Lew sin both ways? No link to violence here early so,
> I'd say his sin is 'sexual'...lotsa hints
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> Question of the Oracle: what could the sin(s) be that the
> psychobablle "experts" could answer with 1) past lives 2)future lives
> 3) Spontaneous hallucination  4) It hallucinating him..????
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> Amnesiac Soul-travel? Apparitions he had?
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