More Rosenbaum on V-ness

[Steelhead]

One last quote from Ron Rosenbaum's review of Maison et Dick's on.

"I see Mr. Pynchon's V-ness as a vast, pervasive, Lucretian integrative force
of promised coherence, a coherence that is as much erotic as metaphysical
(Lucretius personified it in the goddess Venus herself [Aside: But
Lucretius was no Bobby Graves, as Bonnie well knows]. An Eros that promises
to engender meaning out of nothingness, but may betray (or defer) that
promise--or give us a coherence that's terrifyingly sinister. A coherence
that expresses itself as the madness of love or paranoia, and sometimes
both. I can't wait for April."

Steely