V.V. (18) V. in Love

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jbor wrote:

It's quite plain in the text.



Right, Stencil's dossier has it on the authority of Porcepic
himself. That sounds plain.  To whom V. told much of the
affair. OK, I got it from him and he got it from her and we
heard about it from the other guy. And it was Repeated years
later to Stencil. Years? The description is ***a
still-life** of love (yeah very plain, full of irony and
puns and all that Pynchon silliness, but plain) at one of
its many extremes. Sounds kinda Stencilized to me. In any
event, when we get to the description of the hair (do
remember that M's father was bald, as was the Bad Priest) 
in this still-life, we are told that M's hair was shorn.
Why? Well, perhaps or maybe or plainly, it had to do with
something obscure, like Victoria Wren. Victoria Wren? Yeah,
some private, but plain symbolism for the Lady V. having to
do with the time spent in the novitiate. 

Victoria was a Roman Catholic. David Morris asked, are there
more than one form of Roman Catholicism? In this Novel,
there are two. What happens to Victoria in the novitiate?
Why is M dressed as a school boy, head shorn?