BEER: Ch. 8—SCrying

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Thanks. I was going to post about this but do not know much about Tarot 
(or Western occultism for that matter). What I find interesting is that 
Lucas then would be Aleister Crowley to Cassidy's Frieda Harris. We 
already know that he is a more difficult character than his friend and 
business partner Justin: Whereas Justin pines for a California that 
never was ("safe, sunny" - safe along with saved, salvation etc. being a 
Pynchon keyword) "Lucas was searching for someplace, you could say, a 
little darker, where it rains a lot and great silences sweep like wind, 
holding inside them forces of destruction." (74) Lucas is the visionary 
here, Justin the 'code monkey,' as Justin readily admits (76), no?

Thomas
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