"Banned" cover of V.

[Joseph Tracy]

Wonderfully and perfectly grotesque. 
The scene is not so tangential in my view. The first step toward an ever increasing artificiality. Paying for the removal of identity, past, the reality of self. The selling of that surgical re-arrangement. The seduction involved in this all too American transaction. The internalization of  colonialism. I wonder if Pynchon ever saw or approved the cover or had any say in the early covers. I think it is better than the vague illustrative or graphic covers. 
On Mar 23, 2011, at 2:58 PM, David Morris wrote:

> It is a bit over the top, as well as being tangential to the book's main themes.
> 
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Albert Rolls <alprolls at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> 
>> http://www.lucadelbaldo.com/art/key/LUCA-DEL?g2_itemId=591