The Traverse Trail - Too many?

Robin Landseadel robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Thu Sep 30 22:00:27 CDT 2010


On Sep 30, 2010, at 7:07 PM, Michael Bailey wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>  
> wrote:
>> Can't remember this Katie Elder coming up before....thanks.
>> I repeat myself, I'm sure, when I proclaim loudly that Webb's  
>> ideals cum
>> moral failings are carried through all the sons as different  
>> threads of how
>> the sins of the father ripple and work out in history, in America.
>> Whether the characters are "round" enough to be memorable is one  
>> discussion
>> question, imho. Reading it again helps, I suggest.
>> That their plotline threads embody quite different paths of moral
>> inheritance--and karmic adjustment--we all remember on one reading.
>> Pynchon wanted all four for good reasons, I say.
>
> or Brothers K with one of them being Lake

Or a Quaternion equation with Lake as the variable.




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