AtD, Lake and overcoming retribution?

[Ian Livingston]

I like to think we are here to riff on the work, rather than to rip on
each other.

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 7:39 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> This take is a perfect example of why P's later fiction falls flat.
>  Tortured fan-take.
>
>
> On Thursday, March 1, 2012, Mark Kohut wrote:
>>
>> Lake. virtually disowned by dad, with no attempt to understand, no second
>> chance, after a rebellious absquatulation.
>> So, she accepts her rejection...and marries one of her dad's killers and
>> fucks them both.
>> Dad was 'dead' to her AND what a rejection back, eh?  Mirrored 'revenge'
>> against her dad?
>> Yet unlike her brothers, she is not visited by her dad's ghost.
>>
>> Could fucking his killers be some kind of crazy metaphor
>> for..............forgiveness?; forgiveness as forgetting?
>> Way to overcome the endless cycle of retribution?
>>
>>
>> In sections after she has accepted her dad's death, this notion is
>> actually expressed by her friend, the Sheriff's wife,,
>> as is the notion that she may have coupled with Deuce and Sloat and
>> married Deuce to join with her dad's killer(s),
>>
>> Is Lake, with Cyprian,  the largest-souled woman in the book? (Have some
>> stuff on soul still brewing, still distilling)



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"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant