VV (19) Disposal of Profane

[Dave Monroe]

Okay, lacking any decent answers to yr questions,
would like to note that the indeed strong allusion to
Henry James' "The Pattern in the Carpet" just prior
and the ultimate indeterminacy of the "authorial
intention" or whatever "behind" said "pattern" perhaps
signal Pynchon's, er, own "authorial intentions" in
re: a similar indeterminacy here.  As with those
letters at the Morgan Library (and perhaps ultimately
as with those letters, that typescript, at the U of
Texas as well?  Anybody able to report back on those
before its too late?), Pynchon, like James'
(V.-initialed) protagonist, intends as well to take
his "intentions" to the grave.  "Over my dead body"
...

--- John Bailey <johnbonbailey at hotmail.com> wrote:

I'd certainly never considered Profane's final
'trajectory' (thanks Dave) as a suicidal one, though
it does resonate with a lot of V. and GR themes, as
well as putting a new slant on Stencil Sr's last boat
trip. But I would have to add (and I'm
*guessing* that everyone else would agree) that the
text is very ambiguous on this point (big
surprise there).

... but, anyone know, is Sam's reading of that final
mad dash of stencil's and Brenda's unique?  One of
those genuine surprises here to me, at any rate ...

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