CoL49 (3) words she never wanted to hear [PC 40]

[Monte Davis]

David Morris sez:
>Pynchon isn't interested in Catholic  
> theology in V (the priests in V are both god and bad) so much 
> as the subject of modern dehumanization in general, and 
> Esther's abortion falls into that category. 

For what it's worth, folk medicine for abortion has been traced back at
least 3500 years -- so unless one takes a Very Long View Indeed, it's hard
to see the practice (vs. inflamed political debate about it) as especially
modern.

-Monte