More of a Reading of Lew Basnight, pt. 2
Mark Kohut
markekohut at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 26 11:38:33 CST 2010
Yeah...gotta get to and think on....
my stuff here is just on early LB pp.30s-40s, so far.
--- On Fri, 2/26/10, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: More of a Reading of Lew Basnight, pt. 2
> To: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Friday, February 26, 2010, 10:25 AM
> Lew's sexual sin? that rather weird
> meeting with Lake at the end of the novel--is it rape? I
> found it inexplicable
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> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:23 PM,
> Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
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> 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,
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> 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
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> lives 2)future lives
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> 3) Spontaneous hallucination 4) It hallucinating
> him..????
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> Amnesiac Soul-travel? Apparitions he had?
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