Shadow Transit == archetypal in Pynchon?

[Mark Kohut]

Benny Profane transits from the shadowy past to the dead end of
Malta....(did you all see the take on this from Anderson in The
Master?...masturbating into the sea...)

Oedipa transits from Republican California to a new existential
uncertainty...


Slothrop transits from WW2 to a shadow self, so to speak.

The last three novels have all been mysteries where the protagonist hardly
gets out of the shadows at all...