When V possessed him (was Re: VLVL [8] ...)

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

RICHARD_WILSON at udlp.com wrote:

>      speaking of possession...
>
>      Young Stencil spends an entire novel possessed by a mysterious woman
>      whose very existence is in question...
>
>      Oedipa Maas spends the beginning and ending of another novel possessed
>      by a dead man who collected stamps...
>
>      Slothrop spends his entire life possessed by a rocket...
>
>      M & D and Co. spend part of a novel possessed by the spiritual energy
>      of a boundary line....
>
>      (and probably many others)....
>
>      so, there seems to be a common thread of "possession" in the body of
>      P-lit, no?
>
>      --rwilson
>
>      "perhaps my brains have turned to sand" -- eno

Possessions, betrayals, and Ghosts, OH MY
Possessions, betrayals, and Ghosts. OH MY

"I've betray'd you," he cries. "Ah,-I should have-'
Lit Candles? I am past light. Pray'd for me ev'ry Day? I am outside of Time."
"The Wind."

So into it and then on Prairie followed, a girl in a haunted mansion, led room
to room, sheet to sheet, by the peripheral whiteness, the earnest whisper, of
her mother's ghost.