Love is Love.

[Richard Fiero]

Pynchon Notes 18-19 Spring-Fall 1986
http://www.ham.muohio.edu/~krafftjm/pn/pn018.pdf
Hanjo Berressem
V. In Love: From The "Other Scene" To The "New Scene"
Love is Love. It shows up in strange displacements (V 412)
A Freudian-Lacanian study.

 From V.
not merely as a love-game with any Melanie - an inanimate object of 
desire. Stencil even departed from his usual ploddings to daydream a 
vision of her now, at age seventy-six: skin radiant with the bloom of 
some new plastic; both eyes glass but now containing photoelectric 
cells, connected by silver electrodes to optic nerves of purest 
copper wire and leading to a brain exquisitely wrought as a diode 
matrix could ever be. Solenoid relays would be her ganglia, 
servo-actuators move her flawless nylon limbs, hydraulic fluid be 
sent by a platinum heart-pump through butyrate veins and arteries. 
Perhaps Stencil on occasion could have as vile a mind as any of the 
Crew - even a complex system of pressure transducers located in a 
marvelous vagina of polyethylene; the variable arms of their 
Wheatstone bridges all leading to a single silver cable which fed 
pleasure-voltages direct to the correct register of the digital 
machine in her skull. And whenever she smiled or grinned in ecstasy 
there would gleam her crowning feature: Eigenvalue's precious dentures.