VV(7) (a bit from both parts)

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy

I'm way, way behind in the discussion here, but...

I always thought that Stencil was somehow, in his old-style black
wetsuit, mistaken for the aligator by the addled Benny Profane, who
kept losing the aligator, had trouble holding both the flashlight and
the shotgun, and was spooked by the odd light in the tall sewer
chamber.  He takes the light to be bioluminescence -- perhaps the
mysterious glow came from Stencil's lantern or flashlight.  

It is a nice passage, isn't it?

Mark

--- kevin at limits.org wrote:
> Re: the question of Bodine's Sartre usage, I think it's an absolutely
> delicious pun, Bodine assuming the identity of a Rusty Spoon
> intellectual
> by questioning the assumption of identities.  I also thought of
> "Prufock,"
> RJ, but the line that jumped to my mind was "to prepare a face to
> meet the
> faces that you meet."
> 
> As to whether Bodine participates in the joke, or if there's anything
> more
> to it, gee, I'll have to re-read the chapter, I guess.
> 
> (I also think Bodine's ability to identify Ballantine's by the smell,
> and
> moreover, Rachel's reaction to it, is a riot.)
> 
> Re: Stencil going west, I once spent the good part of an evening
> reading
> and re-reading certain pages, calling friends who had _V._, and
> generally
> gnashing my teeth and beating my breast, just trying to figure out if
> Stencil got hit by, as our host says, a shotgun ricochet, or whether
> he
> was, for some reason, dressed in an alligator costume.  Come to think
> of
> it, maybe I shouldn't confess to this sort of thing in public, but
> has
> anyone else ever been confused by this?
> 
> Kevin Troy


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