V2nd - chapter 11 - more examples

[alice wellintown]

> If there is an implicit reproach to any despair the current Crew
> (including Paola) may feel, in the descriptions of the wartime Malta,
> Fausto never draws the comparison.  But then, he doesn't have to, does
> he?

Fausto can not draw the comparison. If the reproach is implicit, if
his Confession, Self-Accusation, is also a Judgement of the Generation
of 1957(?), Fausto doesn't know this is the case. But the parallels
are too many for us readers to ignore and the distance and irony the
implied author maintains here, more so than the mood (the texture, the
setting, the feel) and tone and diction and allusive ambiguities, are
what carry that weight, that implicit and ironic weight. She's so
heavy. Of course, Paola is not so heavy as V and the WSC only wants
You/ wants You (Paoloa) so bad/ Itz drive in then mad/ and so the
implicit reproach an admonishment, the slippage to inert crystal souls
and aborted children, of LSD in Prairie's formula, to the outhouse
cute meets on the boarder of Mexico, to Hope and her Child, a
Super-Girl who is Saved and may yet Save the Day, is taken down, parts
assembled and dismembered and innocence lost but Grace never
extinguished.