VV(12): Sferics

[Dave Monroe]

And, again, from John Dugdale, Thomas Pynchon:
Allusive Parables of Power (London: Macmillan, 1990),
Chapter 2, "V.," pp. 76-123 ...

"... the Stencil narrative of V. as an investigation
into the origins of the paranoid style of politics. 
It tests various possible fixation points for
twentieth-century cosnciousness (for example, 1898,
1913, 1919), scanning the past for the first signs of
the phenomena and the atmosphere of the Cold War; the
lethal chess game of superpowers, the 'grand
conspiracies or foretastes of Armageddon' ([V., p.]
155), the sense of western culture in terminal siege."
(p. 117)

There are resaons why certain stories are written,
certain tropes are deployed, at certain times and
places, in certain situations ...

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