V.V. (18.5) Possession

[Samuel Moyer]

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From: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>

> I think it has to do with the "concept of property" Stencil and Eigenvalue
> discuss. As a sort of goddess of the inanimate in Stencil's imagination of
> her, the teeth have become a relic or prize of her symbolic dominion, if
not
> a part of her actual bodily assemblage.
>
> I've read the line about the "failure of communication" a couple of times
> now and I'm still not sure if I get it. Stencil goes to Eigenvalue's
office
> to face him (possibly "a test of guts"). They agree that "true ownership"
is
> some sort of moral concept, like poetic justice I guess. So Eigenvalue, as
> the maker of the teeth (154.3 up), believes himself to be the moral owner.
> But Stencil believes that V., who is to him the obvious recipient of the
> teeth, is the moral owner. Stencil thinks Eigenvalue knows that Stencil
> stole them. Stencil had bored Eigenvalue to tears with his stories of and
> theories about V. So, what's the "failure of communication", and how come
> they have "parted friends"?

Thanks for the page #.  So Eigenvalue is looking for a jaw for these
dentures and Stencil thinks that they are something (possibly) that V. would
wear.  So why would Stencil have needed to break in to the office?  Perhaps
that is the failure to communicate.   Eigenvalue didn't believe that the
Cinderella for the teeth was out there?  Doesn't understand the nature of V?

>
> Stencil's quest is a pretty warped one when you think about it. (After
all,
> V. is quite probably his biological mum, though he refuses to face this as
> even a remote possibility.) Even so, relentlessly he seeks "her", though
he
> knows that in (at least one of) her human incarnation(s) she is dead. The
> dentures will be a tribute or gift of sorts I guess.
>

I thought that she was his mom for awhile, then decided against it for some
reason.  I will have to look for that....


cheers, Sam