V. Reading

[Teen Age Riot]

> Profane needs some cool as a damper on the reinforcing yoyo
> flicks of fate which would otherwise serve to increase the amplitude
> of his simple harmonic motion. 
Hmm, I see Profane as a system LOSING energy, rather than spiraling out 
of control.  The yoyo rides back in forth with a pendulum's frequency, 
taking Benny along for the ride, but it is slowing down, settling on a 
focus point, Rachel Owlglass.  I read Profane's leaving for Malta in some 
ways as a long overdue act of agency, to break himself out of this 
predetermined periodic motion, to postpone his entropic "heat death".

Stencil is also afraid of the inevitable, the location of V.  But is V. 
an actual force pulling him through time and space, or is Stencil just so 
intent on avoiding Benny's yo-yo of inaction that he's making up this 
game for himself, inventing the rules as they go along, so that it will 
never be forced to cycle and will never draw to a close?  

What is it about this settling point that's so terrible?

Al

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