V-2nd - Chap 8 / I have really never read this book this closely before

Robin Landseadel robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Wed Sep 29 09:41:32 CDT 2010


On Sep 29, 2010, at 7:35 AM, Michael Bailey wrote:

> But doesn't the human interest part of the story show that, like
> Tolstoy said, the infinitesimal movements of individuals are actually
> the components of these historical currents and there really is
> something else going on that's worth paying attention to and deriving
> a counter-moral?

And isn't that sooooooooooo much more successfully realized in  
"Against the Day," using more or less the same basic mis-en-scene as  
the Stencilization inside 'V."?




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