VV (1): Commentary II- the Inanimate

[cj hurtt]

Thomas wrote

>Inanimateness is a major, perhaps the central theme of the novel -

>......The answer to Benny's question probably is: What has started is a
movement
>of the individual and collective psyche towards regarding objects as beings
>to be loved and desired like humans and vice versa towards regarding humans
>as objects to be junked like cars. In other words, a large portion of
>humankind is tending towards the inanimate.
>
This is true but we do have two instances of people pissing on/in inanimate
objects. we got a drunken sailor on 9 releiving himself in a Packard
Patrician (Patrick?) gas tank and Benny thinking he would like to piss out
the sun on page 26.