V.V. (18) "sadism, sacrilege, endogamy and homosexuality"

[Menschen U. Hupokrinesthai]

>From: "jbor" .
>
>She is immature, sluttish, narcissistic.

Her father's girl. No doubr, another of P's abused children.



>
>
>2. History and V.
>
>The essential inscrutability of history resurfaces as a theme in this
>chapter.
>
>Images of sickness, disease and decadence which permeate the sequence take
>on metaphorical overtones. Melanie is putatively the "daughter" of Apollo
>(394.23) and is thus linked -- perhaps ironically -- to Asclepius, who with
>his staff and serpent (cf. the pole on which Su Feng is impaled, the 
>dragons
>on her silk tights?) was the Greek god of healing. The gender bending which
>goes on later in Melanie's tryst with V foregrounds the allegory imo.


Very sick indeed. Imagine having V for a mother!
>
>And in fact, Melanie does seem to have a perversely curative effect on V.,
>who, for the brief time they are together at least, is "bounced
>unceremoniously into the null-time of human love", and is perhaps
>"excommunicated" (409.23) from the "Kingdom of Death" (411.3) which she has
>come to habitually inhabit and embody.

But she can't be excummunicated because she makes the
rules and rights of all the members of her "catholicism" in her own image. 
She wouldn't, can't be denied.

What does that Saint A say about free will and the devil?

oh, if you think St. A has no sense of humor, it's obvious
you have never studied him with a jesuit.


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