VV (19) Disposal of Profane

[Dave Monroe]

Well, still able to peek in occasionally today, so ...
that's a pretty interesting speculation.  I've
suggested here that the final page of Gravity's
Rainbow is actually the blank one after the last page
with any text on it, the white flash of the Bomb as it
goes off over the Orpheus Theater, but apparently not
all eds. have that blank page, so ... so the space at
the bottom of the page then, whatever.  Waxing poetic,
okay?  But betwixt hosting Ch. 14, trying to find
something to say about the "Epilogue," all the recent
hullaballoo on the List, and, well, life beyond the
interface (reminds me again, Marshall McLuhan and
Quentin Fiore, The Medium is the Massage ...).  But
that's some severe metatextuality you're suggesting
there.  What about the "Epilogue," then?  Well,
hopefully, at any rate, we can still eke out a
discussion of V. amidst everything else here.  Thanks
...

--- David Gentle <Gentle_Family at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> "Presently, sudden and in silence, all illumination
> in Valletta, houselight and streetlight, was
> extinguished" (V., 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 and Brenda don't exist. They
> have no life outside the story so it ends in
> darkness.


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