AtD amnesia

[Mark Kohut]

There is a more recent movie,  not so much a part of even pop culture
as Ludlum, which I have forgotten to see,  I think...Memento? Irrelevant.
 
But visited by two other thoughts. One starts with Henry Adams, who 
so famously in that autobiography proclaims over and over, at every new
beginning in his successful-enough (to outsiders) life, that he has learned nothing
to prepare him for the next phase.....America so ever-new, so unEuropean, that
one must reinvent himself at each new adventure. Like Lew?
 
And, in some kindred thematic sense, does Lew begin where Benny Profane ended? Having
learned nothing so far?
 
And at p. 527.we get a paragraph in which Kit loses his memory...."something had happened,
something too terrible to remember, at least as momentous as the fate of the Stupendica,
whereupon everything, along with memory had gone falling dizzily away, not only downward
but out along other axes of space-time as well. This had been happening to him a lot lately" 

From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Saturday, March 3, 2012 5:56 AM
Subject: AtD amnesia


Taking Lew's amnesiac beginning at face value which unknown
crime can bring to mind The Trial are there any other characters
in fiction (or movies of) his amnesia can remind of?

How about those R. Ludlum characters in such as Bourne Identity, etc.?
(Seen movies not read books)

Others?
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