V--2nd, C4

[Mark Kohut]

Grant quotes someone on Schoenmaker being 'one of the Good Guys"....I suggest
started that way but in V. he is now a degraded good guy..........another mixed 
human, partly human (in values), character. 

as Mae West sez:   I drifted.....for Schoenmaker it is largely the USA he is 
caught in......maybe?


Thoughts of how important human faces, face-to-faceness, that Face in Ev'ry 
Stone, is in later Pynchon, led
me to notice this reading: Esther's face is broken and reshaped. She is not who 
she was,
physically. Her face is not (quite) her face. Her natural self is changed. 


Doc Sportello as Buddhist joke: What is, is.