VV(6) - Halidom

[David Morris]

----------
(104) Esther was thrilled.  It was like waiting to be born and talking over 
with God, calm and businesslike, exactly how you wanted to enter the world.
----------

Esther has chosen to be reborn by the aegis of a new God.  Her old one left 
her as a big-nosed preterite in this world, even while telling her she was 
his chosen, elect.

The Biblical Esther could be said to have hidden her ethnicity from her 
husband until the fulcrum of the kings favor had shifted to her through a 
wild chain of events.  His power and his affection for her saved her race 
through a last minute unmasking of her heritage.

The turn-about in the story of Esther is akin to the turn-about in the story 
of the drunken elephants in the arena of Alexandria:  Soul-to-Soul.  Did God 
have a hand in the outcome?

Esther is a "cultural convert."  She has chosen a new nativity, and it aint 
Jewish.  Are Jews (the big nosed ones) ugly?  Esther wants to be pretty.  
She has changed gods.

Halidom was the holy surgeon associated with allografts, and the literal 
present-day definition of the word does NOT mean he favored the introduction 
of inert substances over organic ones.  He was a maverick of medicine, a 
gambler, boldly crossing thresholds with the faces of the truly preterite.  
He was their only chance to remain in the world of the "human," to not 
become monsters.  Godolphin's salvation happened, but it was very fleeting.

BTW, does anyone else think that similarity of the words "allograft" and 
"allograph" might be intended by Pynchon?  "V" is an allograph.  It, the 
allograph, is a very basic component in the transition from the verbal to a 
written society.  It represents graphically a sound made by a human mouth.  
It is an abstraction, and as such, by some of the logic of GR, a 
pornography.  Does Pynchon see himself as a pornographer?

David Morris
_________________________________________________________________
Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com