V.-2 - 1: Yo-yoing versus free will

[Robin Landseadel]

On Jun 15, 2010, at 7:32 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> In V., Benny Profane's consumed with terror of the mechanistic, the  
> inanimate.

In early Pynchon, the great fear is the inevitable slide that entropy  
suggests. Young Pynch saw that in a very "Metropolis", dystopian,  
kinda PKD way in the stories and "V."

He got over it.

In "V." he really gets into it, the intersection of the fleshy and the  
mechanical.