V. good from the wiki on Lew after Hotel Esthonia

[Mark Kohut]

"He understood that things were exactly what they were.
This sentence sums up the entire experience at the Esthonia hotel, which seems to be a Zen-like initiation. Here, Lew Basnight seems to have attained some form of enlightenment, and the description ("a condition...which he later came to think of as grace"), along with this sentence, are almost textbook examples of Zen enlightenment. No lights flash, no changes are seen; one merely understands that things are what they are. After this experience, he leaves the hotel, and no longer needs to be there. He then embarks on his new career, in part because of his extreme ability to notice minute details; something that he was not said to have had before." 

IF Lew is like some modern artist, a detective of meaning in the universe, of life, then his journey might be an internal echo of Pynchon's?.....
from ancestral conceptual Calvinism to.......his kind of Buddhism?