V---2nd, Chap 14, V. in Love

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Or maybe an allegory for, to paraphrase Bill Millard:

  "...attempts to use nineteenth century criteria fo
  evaluate twentieth century phenomenon."


-----Original Message-----
From: Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
To: Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>; Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
Sent: Sat, Jan 15, 2011 7:54 am
Subject: Re: V---2nd, Chap 14, V. in Love


Is Mélanie  primarily an allegory for Old Europa before the outbreak of
Hell aka WW I?

KFL