V-2 - Chapter 9 - Constructing "V."

[Michael Bailey]

thanks, very informative and thought-provoking!

>                Her clothes, which Mondaugen
>                decided from studying illustrated maga-
>                zines bore the unmistakeable Parisian
>                touch, were very fine, made from
>                rare—perhaps now unpurchaseable—
>                fabrics, cut and sewn by skilled—
>                perhaps now dead—hands.

perhaps, at one point, this was a detail reinforcing the unity of
Victoria Wren and Vera Meroving: since the former was about to go into
the tailoring business


>
>        At dawn she came in through the stained-glass
>        window to tell him that another Bondel had been
>        executed, this time by hanging.
>
>        "Come and see," she urged him. "In the garden."
>

aha! maybe this is the hanging referred to in the long sentence!
it fits, because one of the major axes of the (amazing, beautiful,
summarizing, thought-provoking, chapter-capping) LS is that such a
hanging as a disciplinary action in the Bondelswartz Affair
is not nearly so vivid for Foppl/Mondaugen/Weissmann as the
disciplinary actions in the 1904 of his cherished memories (sick
puppy)