V-2nd - Chapter 11: Those kids

[David Morris]

V might be considered the Anti-Orpheus, who was most famously
dismembered.  Orpheus figures prominently in GR as well...

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote
> V.'s metamorphosis is taken up far less subtly in the later historical episodes through the depiction of her "obsession with bodily incorporating little bits of inert matter" (488).   [...]   Ultimately, in her most shadowy guise of all, V. returns to Maim, where she appears during World War II as a mysterious figure known simply as the Bad Priest.   There the full extent of her obsession with replacing body parts with artificial ones is revealed when what's left of her dying body is effectively disassembled by a band of little children whose own insensitivity to suffering is of no small account.