VV (19) Disposal of Profane/Brenda

[jbor]

on 7/15/01 1:54 PM, Samuel Moyer at smoyer at satx.rr.com wrote:

> I keep looking over her poem (page 454) and can't come up with anything.
> Inanimate is good... but seems that there must be more... some connection...
> or again... I am reaching...  The repetition of "I am" is interesting....
> Like that game where you have to guess who she is...

I think maybe it comes back to V. as well. The voice in Brenda's poem is a
personification of all those things which V. also stands for. I think jbf
recently suggested that all of the women in the novel are, in some respect,
V., the embodiment of some overarching "feminine principle". The letter W is
a twinned V after all, and there are two W's in Brenda's surname.

> but I don't see any
> connection (other than inanimacy) between these objects.
> 
> Or more is less - it is just a phony college girl poem.  Then, as you say,
> it is parallel to Stencil and Profane's search.  Although I am not sure what
> Profane searches for.

I think Profane is less the searcher than the sought.

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