Re Angel of Death

[Albert Rolls]

I know I'm late to the party here but I've only been glancing at stuff as I try to do other things. In any case, the Companion to V make a similar point to the one David makes below, but might the generating life, or allowing it to be generated, be a form of causing death; after all, no conception, no death, hence making the spawner of new borns as much an Angel of Death as the killer of them. (Ok the Pope might wag his finger at me here, but the those-not-busy-being-born-are-busy-dying sentiment, discussed here recently if I'm remembering correctly where I just read such a discussion, fits in with Profane's musings about his feeling like an Angek of Death.   


>God.  That wasn't obvious to me, but I haven't looked at the text this
>time around.  I will do so tonight.  All I can say is that this seems
>to be taking puns to a whole new level, which sounds right for TRP.

>But of course this would make Profane a sort of Anti-Angel-of-Death,
>"anti-condom-ing," and thus spawning, not killing newborns.  In V.
>this fits, because when Rachel goes for the abortion, it is treated as
>if she is violating the sanctity of life, a major sin against herself
>& life.  Pychon's Catholic roots are really showing there.

>David Morris