V. (was Re: Prosthetic Paradise

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

rj wrote:
> 
> TF:
> > Like Carl Barrington of "The Secret Integration", the more
> > V. functions as an abstract entity, the more she becomes
> > inanimate and non-human. The processes are co-extensive.
> > V.'s transformations (identity changes) are directly related
> > to the development of the major themes in the novel.
> 
> The concept of 'V' in V. is beyond plot and character; neither Stencil
> nor any other narrative agency in the novel can verbalise an extant or
> all-encompassing 'V'-entity or -state. As Molly Hite notes:
> 
> "As the novel proceeds, V. comes to promise so much that any resolution
> would become ludicrously deficient." (*Ideas of Order*, p. 27)

Snip--I'll reply to the rest of your post later, but I
wonder why you quote Molly Hite here and and criticize other
approaches? It's not the quote above that is inconsistent
with your critique, so I don't hold you to agreeing with
Molly Hite's entire book, but it seems odd that you quote
Hite, while attacking others, unnamed, for doing what she
does in her book. Would you like examples? Or is this not an
important point?