Love is Love.

[Mark Kohut]

Seventy-six in 1956 means she was born in 1880.....more associations when we get 
there on the guitar...........



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From: Richard Fiero <rfiero at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Fri, September 3, 2010 7:27:19 PM
Subject: Love is Love.

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.