Against the Day

[Mark Kohut]

Vormance Expedition = V--Romance? An anti-Romance?  a V-like quest for
certain truths about history? With similar V-like conclusions?

Joseph T wrote this in 2007:
"There's a sense in which the whole [Vormance] expedition and its aftermath
seem to exsist in their own, oddly discrete little bubble. Certainly such a
cataclysmic occurance (with all its modern day overtones) would, you'd
expect, have some kind of felt effect on the rest of the novel's fictional
world, but I don't think - please someone check! - that the Vormance events
are much mentioned anywhere else in the book?"

and it still fast in my rereadings.

We readers do not seem to talk enough about these chapters. What purpose do
they contain in the novel? As overarching metaphors for deep--
collective unconscious-- aspects of history? Or of the author's vision
(which might be the same thing).