AtD: Lew,a moral center

[Mark Kohut]

David Morris writes:
You both have a much better recollection of the details, but at a very
basic level Pynchon has his twisted sisters (starting w/ VL, for me)
making choices that aren't explained much by personal histories.  I
think his women (maybe all his characters) are constructs in his take
on power dynamics, and as such we don't really feel their motives:
they are too abstracted/theoretical.

David Morris

I would largely agree (although I'm sure with differences if we went through details)
but THIS---"constructs in his take on power dynamics"---
is just what  giving AtD a moral reading is, i say...




On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:
> On 2/23/2012 1:49 PM, rich wrote:
>
> that whole bit in LA in the end is very strange not sure how it all fits or if it fits at all -- beyond that weird rape scene is Deuce--i wasnt crazy about him turning from a badass into some whining wheezy moron but then he turns into a serial killer? its all rather much
>
>
> It did feel a little tacked on. But wasn't it necessary to shift action to the far West and of course Hollywood, plus enabling a final contact with Lake, a pretty remarkable character in her own way?
>
> Lake wasn't just the stereotypical woman who makes bad choices, falls in love with the wrong kind of men, etc. etc.  I remember conversations she had with other women in the book  and some with Deuce her monstrous husband to be as poignant as anything in the book.  Better than the Reef-Yashmeen relationship--which to me got really cloying.   I don't have a leg to stand on with regard to the goodness-badness axis but I decidedly don't care.
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