V-2nd Dopplegangers

[David Payne]

So, alice, you'd see the historic chapters as the lead up the second fall, a time when people freely chose to turn themselves and others into objects? And the present (1956) chapters as after the fall, no more free choice because people are objects? 
 
That's interesting. 
 
In historic terms, that'd seem like the lead up to the world wars and the aftermath, except that Pynchon was also using this as commentary on the Vietnam war. David Seed reprinted a letter from Pynchon wherein Pynchon talks V. and describes an ongoing long term conflict wherein Western linear-ism is stomping out "Eastern" holistic-ism (not really Eastern since he was including Africans and Aztec). Well, crap, I don't have that letter with me and I'm not getting it right, but maybe you get the point or can look it up instead of trusting me to dumb down a great letter which is especially interesting for V. chapter 9.
 
But to apply the "lead-up-to-fall" and "after-the-fall" stencil back to my character/scene comparisons, Bongo-Shaftsbury chose to turn himself into an automan, but Fergus Mixolydian is hooked on tv, an extension of the machine.
 
And Yusef desired to turning people into tattered cloths and dead flesh, but Da Cohno is locked in fetish, an extension of a weapon.
 
Eh?
 
Any other twins running through V.?