VV(18) - The Back Room

[David Morris]

You may call it "futility," but what IS it?  V. seeks the seige for her 
place of revelation.  Why so?  Was Melanie's ballet a part of this 
seige-pattern?  Conflict!  Death!  These are staged for V. because she is a 
scholar of these things.  Her viewing makes them her performers.

V. does seek reification, but she seeks it outside the convent.  This may be 
her sin in Pynchon's construction, but I doubt it.  What is it about the 
seige that so attracts her?

David Morris

>From: "jbor" I think that the "Things in the Back Room" are the revelations 
>of futility which V. witnessed accidentally at first, back in Egypt, and 
>then gradually sought out, in Paris, Florence, Sudwest, and by having 
>people like Godolphin and Foppl reify for her what happened in Vheissu, the 
>Sudan, and 1904.
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