v. and orlando

[julian nasti]

hey everybody i'm back...

in senior english our major assignment this semester entails having to 
analyse a particular text and any appropriation that may have been derived 
from it (bit of a tautology there), for example, _heart of darkness_ and 
_apocalypse now_, _hamlet_ and _rosencrantz and guildernstein_, the list is 
effecively interminable, especially when the boundaries between 
appropriation and intertexuality become blurred...

does anyone think that pynchon's _V._ may be seen as an appropriation of 
virginia woolf's _orlando_? I've only just started reading _orlando_ but 
are'nt they both ostensibly about the same thing, a woman assuming various 
(cultural and sexual) manifestations and apparently materializing ex vacuo 
at various points in european history?

i could be completely off the track, but i'm ready for the consequent 
inevitable barrage of abuse.

julian.
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