Favourite Pynchon Scenes

[Carvill John]

http://marksarvas.blogs.com/elegvar/

Under 'PYNCHON HIGHLIGHTS'

"Susan Henderson: The scene that sticks out for me is easy. It's Esther's 
nose job in V. The doctor who does the surgery is an old war veteran who 
knows first-hand about the fraternity of freaks who have suffered deforming 
injuries in war. He's a rough man with old-fashioned techniques for plastic 
surgery; and there's Esther on the day of her surgery, medicated numb but 
not unconscious. And the whole scene is gruesome and oddly sexual. There's a 
line the doctor says as he's sawing and snapping bones about how frail we 
all are. God, it's wonderful, and you're not at all expecting what happens 
when she returns to his office for post-op, all wild-eyed and bandaged and 
turned on."

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