VV(11): Submarine Country

[David Morris]

The surface of a body of water as a representation of a membrane which
separates the conscious for the subconscious was explicit in Jung's writings. 
Is is a mysterious place where all manner of life teems.  "Underground" is
indeed similar.  Pynchon touches on this undersea symbolism here in V and also
in GR, but he doesn't let it rule.  It is suggestive but never definitive, so
is never "too ontological."

In V. it seems also that "Under the Street" is a place of protection from "The
Wind" taking on a character similar to a hothouse, which is another prominent
theme for Pynchon.

David Morris

>question, repeated: what about tony tanner's 
>"underground/undersea=subconsciousness"-thesis?
>seems to fit here, but isn't it, however, 
>a little "too ontological"?!


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