V2nd - a couple three questions

[alice wellintown]

> Is it possible that V. stands for virgin?  And the abbreviation of
> virginity by various means, fair and (all too often) foul?

I always figured that V. stood for Penis, but I don't take no stock in
Venus or Virginity no how. Masturbation and suicide are catholic
connections. That Myrtle (an important plant), the one what gets
runned over by Daisy the Dynamo in Gatsby's car sure do seem like she
coulda used a helpin hand from Henry Adams or the message mesage man
McLuhan; Henry Adams, was one of Fitzy's faves, but I likes this foul
and fair virginity allsuion to Macbeth's existential nothingness and a
tale told by an idiot, what, with three Beatrice Bitches and Bloody
Hands ringing them bells I could almost swear I seen Faulkner's Sound
and Fury rising in the valley of ashes. Now there's a book about
Virginity. But american gothic is often about virginity.  It seems
such an old idea, one that the knight might tell a tale about and set
off a daisy chain, Miller, Wife, Nun ...but I wreckin itz still wit us
somehow. I do recal reading some kool stuff on virginity in Vineland,
like how itz exchnaged and for what. N. KATHERINE HAYLES

Cherry-oh,

Al

sexual acts and or the failure of sexual, the failure of procreation
...we have the story of various young people getting together.
What happens? Do they get it on?  Benny I'm Cherry, she says, but
Benny simply rests a drink on her naked body, as
if the girl desperate for sex, was only another coffee table.
Lowlands? What's happening with the moon and sterility and that little
elf
girl? Are these Waste Land Stories? In Small Rain, Lardass makes love
to Little Buttercup in the Waste Land Sun after the Farewell to Arms
Rain. Both the rain and the sun are signs of sterility and death in
this story. No escape, no love making, the temperature will not
change.