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Let's talk about V.
The book, the woman.

Lets go.

So, who was this woman?

>> No.5364877

the book is shit
the woman was a nigger

>> No.5364878

>>5364875
She didn't exist at all. Stencil was high on his own apophenia.

>> No.5364885

>>5364875
fuck pynchon an his stupid banadana.

>> No.5364892
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5364892

Why the fuck is the Crying Lot of 45 so fucking difficult to read? God damnit.

>> No.5364906

>>5364878
Then why the hell did the woman pretend to be a priest and was made up of fake parts?

>> No.5365005

An idealized (and therefore immortal) figure whose capacity to instill desire grows in proportion to her capacity to instill horror as her physical form is gradually replaced, part by part, by the inert and inorganic, mirroring the contemporary 20th-century fetishization and fear of industrialization.

>> No.5365552

>>5364906
>>5365005
This book sounds neat.

>> No.5366626

>>5365005
But why did the children take her apart?

>> No.5366639

>>5364892
Just go with it, it'll come together in the end

>> No.5366747

>>5365005
Thanks

>> No.5366819

>>5364875
I'm still not sure V. was just a woman. there were so many place names that started with V. that I started to think she was actually a sort of idealized paradise.