Profane

[RICHARD ROMEO]

Isn't Profane a half alter ego (or whatever you call it) for the author.

Not the part that writes like an angel (nothing profane about angels),

but the shy awkward kid who joined the navy to see the world. Such an 

identificaton might explain Benny's success with dames--pure

wish fulfillment, spun out of the whole cloth.



Seems to me Stencil needs our sympathy more than the charmed Benny.



Rather be born lucky than smart.



Just guessing.

		



				P.

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I guess out of all the major characters that populate V. I am most 
intrigued about the relationship between V. and Profane.  I would even 
claim that maybe Stencil AND Profane are TRP's alter-egos.  In Grim 
Phoenix, which I have been reading, the author in his essay "Death 
Transfigured", gives Profane the moniker "angel of death" which sorta 
baffles me.  Any ideas? 







Richard Romeo

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