Anxiety is my business

[B C Johnson]

Paul Nightingale made this contribution:

On V.: "As scapegoat and fetish, V. bears the burden of evil as it is
delineated in Pynchon's text. She occurs at the thematic nexus between
sexuality and death, embodying the masculine fear of the body's fragility
and of what cannot be known. Her incorporation of metallic matter (her gold
feet, her silver teeth, for instance) reflects the extension of this fear
towards corporeality and decay" (21).

To me, this is a brilliant insight, and ultimately the answer to the largely rhetorical question "what is GR about?"  However, to the extent that this statement assumes the reality of V's "corporeal" existence, I reserve judgment.

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