Hang on a second...

Also, I realize the journey/search was more important to the novel then whatever lay at the end of it. But it seems like a silly thing for people to (still) be hung up on.

v. is noone in particular

v. is the wrath of the inanimate

how are there no academic essays on Pynchon's use of animate and inanimate in V.? it's so interesting and could actually use clarification but I can find nothing

>>9321274
subscribe to the pynchon quarterly by w.a.s.t.e.

>>9321265
it's not a mystery in that sense of it though. Think of V as representative of a more general concept of convergence of human and machine as well as a sort of humanistic singularity. All the 'V's that could be V are sort of incarnations of this concept

>>9321274
do you have jstor access?

cause if you do :

http://www.jstor.org/tc/accept?origin=/stable/pdf/3831326.pdf

http://www.jstor.org/tc/accept?origin=/stable/pdf/25111109.pdf

>>9321284
Those articles were interesting but I guess was explicitly interested in the "animate vs. inanimate" and they didn't really address that. I don't know. Maybe I'm autistic about it but I'm always interested in words that authors repeat in strange ways throughout their books (ex: annular in IJ, secular in Bleeding Edge)

>>9321438
Lol you don't get to count yourself as autistic because you can recognize motifs happening. I'll do some digging when I have my computer for more links to what you're looking for but if you haven't checked out Gaddis and his ideas around the mechanization of the arts I'd give it a lookseedoosiee

>>9321598
I haven't really gotten into Gaddis since I already have read more pomo than I should have with my total reading experience. I'll check it out though