V-2nd - Chapter 10 drove the little Triumph to the party...

[Michael Bailey]

Robin Landseadel wrote:
> alice wellintown wrote:


one thing that strikes me in Chapter 10 is at that party where the
girl takes Sphere's eye.  "Give me back my eye," he says.  This seems
at first to be an interruption of uncontrollable, almost
unconscionable levity on the author's part.

But then Sphere turns down a tryst, goes running back to Ruby, and
before that, Sphere's buddy remarks on him having eyes for the
kitchen, or something like that - so one gets a picture of somebody
being turned on, noticeably, and resisting it, for a reason.  And it
also refers back to Shakespeare, "tell me where is fancy bred?"

I have this harmless contrarian theory that V. is actually pretty cool...



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"Such regulations may, no doubt, be considered as in some respects a
violation of natural liberty. But those exertions of the natural
liberty of a few individuals, which might endanger the security of the
whole society, are, and ought to be, restrained by the laws of all
governments, of the most free as well as of the most despotical." -
Adam Smith