Temptation, much to Lindsay's chagrin, lurked at every step.
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"Chagrin" is an interesting word to use here. Pynchon could have used embarrassment as a near synonym, seeing as how Lindsay has that stick up his asterisk. But chagrin denotes that there's something more to Lindsay's being tempted, a quite large possibility of failure to resist, or the humiliation of having failed before. Perhaps Lindsay knows that, even though he's a rules monger, he has trouble resisting many of the things rules have been made to avoid. Like a Christian who believes the only reason people don't sin is because they fear Hell, Lindsay only resists debauchery and hedonism because somebody made rules against those things.
I suppose I didn't say anything new in that previous paragraph because I'm quite certain I've already called Lindsay a sociopath at least a dozen times.
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