"Arrangements are in place, sir. Please go with Hershel now, and try to remember the way, for he won't want to show it to you again."
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Arrangements in place?! Forget The Twilight Zone. I think Lew has found himself in the Philip K. Dick short story, We Can Remember It For You Wholesale. Maybe Lew was a powerful mob boss in Chicago who wanted a normal life and had his mind wiped! But now he's returned to the neighborhood where he was considered a hero of the people and they're all making accommodations for him. Or he had made the accommodations himself in the case he ever found himself back in this neighborhood.
Or it's probably some combination of my first theory, a mystical and/or scientific theory regarding interdimensional doppelgängers, and my second theory, the devil is trying to obtain Lew's soul.
The theory I don't believe is that Lew has just found himself amidst a bunch of really friendly and helpful people. It's more likely They all work for Them and Lew Basnight is Their Slothropian experiment for this novel.
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