/lit/ - Literature

It was Thomas Pynchon's birthday yesterday. How did y'all celebrate?

With a long-winded "satire" of Buzzfeed listicles?
http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/gif-explainers-explained-in-thomas-pynchon-explained-1573696149

Or maybe with cake?

Alright, /lit/, I just read V. by Thomas Pynchon and I don't think I totally got it. Here are a few of my thoughts/questions. spoilers ahead, obviously.

1. What exactly does V. represent? I noticed that she replaced her animate body parts with inanimate ones, and that this was a theme throughout the book (Evan Godolphin did this, the automata as dancers, etc.). But what does it mean?

2. How does Benny Profane relate to the central plot at all? This was my main point of confusion. Stencil thinks he's possessed by V., but other than that I don't understand his connection.

WOAH SHIT MOTHERFUCKERS THIS THREAD JUST GOT REAL
PYNCHON IN THE FUCKING HOUSE, HERE TO COP A FEEL

DONT GET INTO MY BOOK EXPECT A LOGICAL CONCLUSION
ALL YOURE GONNA GET IS FUCKING COLD, HARD CONFUSION

YOU'LL BE SITTING BACK THINKING "THE FUCK DID I JUST READ?"
WHILE YOUR BRAIN TURNS TO MUSH, ON WHICH I SHALL FEED

GO AHEAD, I DARE YA TO TRY TO READ AND UNDERSTAND ME
YOU'LL OPEN THE BOOK AND SUDDENLY FEEL LIKE YOU CAN'T READ

ONE HUNDERED MILLION WORDS AND YOUR ONLY HALFWAY DONE
THE POST MODERN BRILLIANCE WILL MAKE YOUR HEAD EXPLODE INTO THE SUN

I just started reading Pynchon's "V.".
What am I in for?

>>1454685
Yeah?

Explain to me post modernism literature in 4 sentences or less.

>>782526
No, but you seem to be~