V.V. 3--Time, place, and mirror-time

[Mr. McChoakumchild]

Don Corathers wrote:
> 
> One of a number of references that suggest the practice of plastic surgery involves the conversion of the quick into the inanimate by degrees. Slab, complaining to Rachel about Esther's nose job, shows her a portrait of Esther and says: "Look at it, the nose. Why does she want to get that changed. With the nose she is a human being."
> 
> And then there's Evan Godolphin, who we'll meet soon, and whose doctor (disastrously) "favored allografts: the introduction of inert substances into the living face."
> 
> Don

Right, but plastic surgery or the introduction of parts is
not needed, the quick may become a fetish, the dead, in the
mirror and in life and in death--Chapter 14. In that chapter
the girl is the fetish that belongs to V and she was raped
by her father (incest) while yet a child, and we are forced
to confront the moral position of this novel. Shoenmaker
excuses himself with, "Individuals do what they want, but
the chain goes on and small forces like me will never
prevail against it." The novel says, Take this position and
we will end up human waste piled up in Elmira or Germany. 
"No moral judgment?" "Love is love?"  see Chapter 14. Same
theme in GR.