@Madness & Wilshire
I was able to find everything from from Madness' direction.
To comment on NEED...
Irrationally, I am attempting to consume as much of Bakker's thought process\ideas along with all available reader hypotheses (Nerdanel haha), before rereading WLW. At this point, the process feels like avoidance, but having come so far, I wish to be as armed as possible before diving into the book again.
Hence, reading this forum as completely as possible.
EDIT: I feel as if I am missing a semicolon somewhere above. My poor 9th grade English teacher.