V--2nd, Existentialist Sheriff; Profane reading, Pig Bodine recommended, p. 302 HP Classics edition

[Mark Kohut]

I have been thinking about this joke in V. I'm making myself laugh. 

Existentialist---"existence comes before essence" was one shorthand I learned 
back in the day. We simply are
what we choose, always freely, to do; I am not defined by any qualities I am..

So, free doers who choose to be sheriffs, what's that about? Another little 
early Pynchon joke about authority
corralling the outlaw spirit, free as existence? 

Is High Noon about an existentialist sheriff???

Associations any and all....what comes to your mind?