VV(18) - The Back Room

[jbor]

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>From: "David Morris" <fqmorris at hotmail.com>
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> You may call it "futility," but what IS it?

History, war, conquest, human endeavour, human relationships. The collapse
of values. Blind faith and the destruction it generates.

> V. seeks the seige for her
> place of revelation.  Why so?  Was Melanie's ballet a part of this
> seige-pattern?

V. is a "patroness" of the ballet (400.11 passim). When told that Melanie
had been, let's say procured, V. asks:

"Was there objection from the mother?" (400.15)

There is a very overt hint of conspiracy here, which creates yet another
possibility regarding Melanie's "accident" at the premiere. However it had
happened, Melanie is sacrificed on the altar of art. The futility of it is
just the same whether the altar is art, politics, religion or whatever.

> Conflict!  Death!

Yes indeed.

> These are staged for V. because she is a
> scholar of these things.  Her viewing makes them her performers.

But on the other side of it she is, in Paris, just a woman in a loft at
Grenelle. Who had fallen in love.

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