V-2nd - Chapter 8 - Section IV - Stencil's soliloquy

[Michael Bailey]

also, the forensic anthropologist in the TV show "Bones" is named Temperance!


http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/BA/PT/M7.html
(noting that the loquaciousness and allusiveness of this reference is
at least as gnarly as anything in Deleuze and Guattari, the images and
references in the Tarot Keys are as densely packed as a Pynchon
passage, and hoping that Robin will provide some keys to this Key...)

"Temperance mixes the wine and water by pouring from one vessel into
the other, and then back again; her actions represent a periodic
reversal of flow. In this case, the sublimation of the parents'
energies to produce the child (trumps 1-6) is reversed, with a
consequent resurgence of the libido in the child. This energy
manifests in many forms (trumps 8-11), which she must learn to control
and direct towards growth (trumps 12-20). (Nichols 252-3)"


the "resurgence of libido" in Profane is an important part of V. and
the resurgence of libido in Mondaugen, the various surgings of libido
in Chapter 9, relate somehow to the idea of Temperance, or lack
thereof...