VV (3) - The Plastic Zone

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John Bailey wrote:
> 
> I think the relation between these episodes and V lies in shared theme of a
> society which increasingly demands its subjects to experience themselves as
> objects. Thus, I don't see the 'inanimate' characters of the novel as
> somehow villainous or malevolent. I think Pynchon is rather showing how
> social structures force these people to (literally) in-corporate the
> inanimate into themselves, and to become objects. This is especially
> important when the V figure is repeatedly depicted in female terms. The
> great institutions of the 20th Century all to a large degree treat women's
> bodies as objects and instruct women to see their own selves the same way.
> 
> Anyway, my brain isn't currently fit to complete any of these thoughts.


Can't disagree with these thoughts, but I don't think
Pynchon says this is any excuse for Malevolence, even
Villainy, and we have plenty of both in this novel, and all
Pynchon's works.  

"Acts have consequences, Dixon, they must."