AtD, Lake and overcoming retribution?

[bandwraith at aol.com]

You can slice it and dice it in a number of
different ways. A nice thing about pynchon's
fiction- he allows/encourages /makes
room for the artistry of the reader. There
must be an infinite number of conceivable
paths to Tuvo. Some are more probable than
others. Some/sum. Even the most improbable
have a small potential of actually happening,
and in some version of the multi-version collapse
into consciousness.

Not to say that he cedes everything to the whim
of the reader. What's her name, the "anti-Lake"
who brings together- more tightly as the case
may be- Reef and Cyprian, actually does
tunnel through a wall, and finds herself in the
street.

Lake's trajectory can be variously described.
In one version she's the truest christian.


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thu, Mar 1, 2012 6:40 pm
Subject: AtD, Lake and overcoming retribution?


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)