Wife–sister narratives in the Book of Genesis Noah's and Lot's drunkenness and David's adultery. On the other hand, commentators such as Allan Turner, in his essay "Lying: Is It Ever Right?", takes the standpoint that the patriarchal individuals did not actually lie, but merely concealed part of the truth. Wife–sister narratives in the Book of Genesis There are three wife-sister narratives in Genesis, part of the Torah, all of which are strikingly similar. The narratives occur in Genesis 12, 20 and 26. At the core of each is the story of a Biblical Patriarch, who has come to be in the land of a powerful foreign overlord
The Crying of Lot 49 real character's name," protests one reviewer. Pynchon disparaged this book, writing in the prologue to his 1984 collection "Slow Learner", "As is clear from the up-and-down shape of my learning curve, however, it was too much to expect that I'd keep on for long in this positive or professional direction. The next story I wrote was "The Crying of Lot 49", which was marketed as a 'novel', and in which I seem to have forgotten most of what I thought I'd learned up until then." As ever with Pynchon's writing, the labyrinthine plots offer myriad linked cultural references. Knowing these