V2, C3

[Ian Livingston]

I won't be able to access the internet until the sun hits my panels
tomorrow mid morning Pacific Time, so I thought I'd get these out
ahead of the schedule by just a bit. Then I have to get back to my
chores.

This first is just a collection of larger questions I have about this
chapter, the next email will launch into the work.

My big questions are

(1) to echo Laura’s question, How closely are we to read the Stencil /
Henry Adams link?

(2) Regarding the structure of this chapter, is there something to the
arrangement of the sections besides the spy v. spy story, for instance
in that Victoria Wren does not appear in sections iv and v? Could this
structural order of things relate to Mark’s insights on the Rachel in
the mirror / time episode (e.g., absent subject)?

(3)Are these “Stencilings” fair insights into the perspectives of
others or are they merely solipsistic fantasies? I ask this last
because of  its possible relevance to some ruminations on the part of
Sidney Stencil later on, and something in Herbert’s contemplation that
at “each step the sense of ‘blood’ weakened. Stencil could see a day
when he would only be tolerated. It would the be he and V. all alone,
in a world that somehow had lost sight of them both” (55).

-- 
"liber enim librum aperit."