Lew Basnight

[Mark Kohut]

Sure, maybe, I guess, since I can't Lacan....
 
Just meant that when TRP gives us "ignorant, B(lack) AS NIGHT right there......
lots of name speculation seems to be........beside the point...........................

From: Albert Rolls <alprolls at earthlink.net>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> 
Cc: Pynchon-L <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 5:28 PM
Subject: Re: Lew Basnight


Isn't it all on the surface, depth being a metaphor. (A friend's kids once tore apart a pop-up book to see if there was more to find underneath: the results weren't very positive, as you can imagine.) Lacan also observed the unconscious is on the surface, if memory serves me right: it's been a long time since I've played with Lacan's texts. 

-----Original Message----- 
>From: Mark Kohut 
>Sent: Feb 10, 2012 4:56 AM 
>To: pynchon -l 
>Subject: Lew Basnight 
>
>
>Didn't TRP say in one of his letters that his meanings 
>were all there, on the surface (on the page?) or something like?
>
>Lots of speculation about the meaning of Lew's last name but
>maybe there it is: "In an ignorance black as night"..........he [Lew]
>knew only, etc......p.38
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