V.V. (18) V. in Love

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jbor wrote:
> 
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> >From: <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
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> > The excommunication here, from the
> > Catholic/Tourist Church is owed to her lordliness, her
> > colonial catholicism, the inversion of the Virgin Mary and
> > to the fact that Stencil, we are told by the narrator, gives
> > here some humanity.
> 
> Sorry, but this is incorrect. Her "excommunication" is due to the fact that
> she has fallen in love. The chapter is titled 'V. in Love'.
> 
>     The lady V., one of them for so long, now suddenly found
>     herself excommunicated; bounced unceremoniously into the null-time of
>     human love, without having recognized the exact moment as any but when
>     Melanie entered the side door to Le Nerf on Porcepic's arm and time --
>     for a while -- ceased. (409.22-26)
> 
>     Of the woman, her lover, nothing further was seen. (414.22)


I'm not disagreeing with you, the fact that Stencil gives
her some humanity,  "love," V.--V in Love, is the easy part.
But again, we have to deal with the Catholicism.