VV(18) - The Back Room

[David Morris]

> >From: "David Morris" <fqmorris at hotmail.com>
> > You may call it "futility," [the Things in the Back Room] 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). [...] 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.

These are all (art, politics, religion) locales for seige.  V. seems to be a 
seige-addict.  I think it is because she anticipates Armagedden and the 
comming of the next era.  This would be from a recognition that the present 
one is nearly dead, or at least one which includes her, the Virgin.

The ballet is not only about a violent seige, its perfomance is also.  Every 
instance of V.'s story is set amidst a seige, war.  Old Godolphin's Vheissu 
was not set in a seige, so why should V. look there for her Vheissu?  The 
answer may be that she an end to the "futility" of Vheissu in Death.  But it 
seems more that she looks for the next dispensation, and she wants to meet 
it bravely.

David Morris
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