V-2 - chapter 9 - Not Dark Yet

[alice wellintown]

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On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 8:20 AM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> In addition to Conrad's stories, HoD, Victory, SA...and Poe's MRD, LC,
> FHU...Mann MM, DiV, BG, we have Dickens here...the wind, the wind that
> will belong to the rocket, is Dickens's wind and much of the gothic
> romance of the chapter is taken from Pip's encounter with Estella and
> Lady H at Satis House. A nice pun, as Estella explains it,
> satisfaction & sadistic.
>
>
>> In my copy, that's page 254. We see the blood on 249. Kurt meets Vera, right
>> after seeing the blood, and then by virtue of not speaking of it, knows that
>> he's already entered into a conspiracy with "V." Then he sees her Cyborg
>> eye, just before catches a glimpse of Weissmann. During this Vera tells him
>> that "it could be 1904 again, " Vera knowing what 1904 was and the readers
>> most likely not.  Later on, Mondaugen captures another prurient glimpse of
>> Vera and Weissmann, ". . . as if he had dreamed them." Then he's seduced by
>> a sweet [albeit perverse] young thing named Hedwig Vogelsang who claims her
>> "purpose on earth is to tantalize and send raving the race of man."
>> Eventually -- many pages further down the road --  we find the two in
>> congress, and Mondaugen is, in fact, raving.
>