V---2nd Chap 14....Melanie L' Heuremaudit

[Dave Monroe]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Melanie's name means The Cursed Hour, say French speakers and The Companion
> to V.....

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0106&msg=56374

>From Kathleen Fitzpatrick, The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American
Novel in the Age of Television (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt UP, 2006),
Ch. 2, "Machine," pp. 58-97:

"Unable to distinguish between herself as object and the objects by
which she is surrounded, and, the suggestion goes, unwilling to
protect the chastity her culture suggests she ought to value, Melanie
dies." (pp. 55-6)

http://www.anxietyofobsolescence.com/
http://www.anxietyofobsolescence.com/2006/04/chapter-2/
http://www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/books/11/the-anxiety-of-obsolescence
http://books.google.com/books?id=pdkDXNbPPuUC