V...down the drain

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Was just struck by the passage in V. on p.133 (Bantam pb).  Profane is musing
on the fate of the alligators in the sewer:

 "...in some prehistoric circuit of the alligator brain they knew, that as
babies they'd been only another consumer-object...And the soul's passage down
the toilet and into the underworld was only a temporary peace-in-tension,
borrowed time till they would have to return to being falsely animated kids'
toys.  Of course they wouldn't like it. Would they want to go back to what
they'd been; and the  most perfect shape of that was dead-what else?-..." 

I never connected the alligators passage down the toilet with another souls
passage down the toilet. Tyrone's later more eventful trip down the same
orifice. Neat bit of foreshadowing, wot?


Ron Churgin