VV (19) Disposal of Profane

[David Gentle]

>I don't recall how I
> read this on my only other time through the book, but
> on rereading, I was more interested in why "Presently,
> sudden and in silence, all illumination in Valletta,
> houselight and streetlight, was extinguished" (V., Ch.
> 16, Sec. iii. p. 455
My assumption about the darkness is that it's the end of the story. Maybe it's an acknowledgment of
the fact that Profane nd Brenda don't exist. They have no life outside the story so it ends in
darkness.