ATD and ghosts/thanatoids

Gavin Findlay gavinf at homemail.com.au
Tue Mar 9 01:04:17 CST 2010


Hi people

Have now finished ATD and near the end, where it is very ambiguous as  
to what world the protagonists are in, Lew Basnight encounters (p1057  
Cape hardback) what is self-evidently a party of what will in Vineland  
be called Thanatoids, at Carefree Crescent. They are even presided by  
someone called Virgil and discuss the topic of karmic adjustment.

I have some rereading of other works to do obviously to more fully  
understand but that will be a pleasure.

Bought my copy of Inherent Vice while travelling on the weekend,  
adding to the pleasure.

tonebuddha



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