Animate/Inanimate "V"

[Dave Monroe]

The animate/inanimate thing might not be so forthrightly stated as such in 
Pynchon's other texts as it is in V. (mechanics, prosthetics, automata), but 
it's pervasive nonetheless.  Vineland (television), Mason & Dixon (automata) 
and the short stories ("Entropy" comes to mind) are foggy memories to me 
these days, but that creeping scientization, mechanization, 
technologization, industrialization of the organic, the natural, the human, 
the social, the historical, clearly abounds in The Crying of Lot 49 
(thermodynamics, information theory, cybernetics) and Gravity's Rainbow 
(plastics, ballistics, statistics, psychological conditioning), no?  
Something like that.  Let me know ...
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