V2nd - chapter 11 - more examples - Bastardized?

Richard Fiero rfiero at gmail.com
Wed Dec 1 13:24:50 CST 2010


alice wellintown wrote:
>. . .
>We can dicker with the terms abit here, but this is an excellent
>description of Stencil and V..
>The detective, the quest, the confession, the tragic episodes with the
>devine comedy...so on...not a detective story or a drama...not oedipus
>or slade.
. . .
Stencil and Profane may both be highly alienated characters and 
tragic like Oedipus, Jesus Christ, Raskolnikov and Willy Loman. Life 
with death as a certainty and no hope for renewal.
The fog at the end of IV and the grace of AtD are forever unobtainable.




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