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V.	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })V. is the first novel by Thomas Pynchon, published in 1963.The novel’s plot is split into two mostly separate plot threads, both of which feature large cast of characters.The first story is set in late-1950s New York City, and follows a discharged Navy, Benny Profane, hunting giant alligators in the sewers, reconnects with a group of pseudo-bohemian artists and hangers-on known as The Whole Sick Crew, and pines for his devastatingly cool lover, Rachel Owlglass. Among them is his shipmate, Pig Bodine and an artist called Slab, who can’t seem to paint anything else other than cheese danishes.In Cairo, Florence, Malta, South Africa, and Paris, meanwhile, and at various points across the 19th and 20th centuries, we’re introduced to Herbert Stencil, a mysterious traveler searching for a mysterious woman known only as V. Which may be a code-name, a phantom, a conspiracy, or a dream.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The two threads eventually converge (like a V, y’see) against a backdrop of riotous boozing, Danish-pastry abuse, Orientalist fantasy, wondrous descriptive prose and sobering animadversions on man’s inhumanity to man.V. had a very different style and is more serious, grounded and a lot less cartoony and/or comedic than his later work. Nevertheless, it contains all of his trademarks, style, themes and ideas that will haunt his future work.
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V. / int_1133e720	type	Fat Slob
V. / int_1133e720	comment	Fat Slob: Pig and Benny.
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V. / int_141a6acb	type	Madness Mantra
V. / int_141a6acb	comment	Madness Mantra: “Events seem to be ordered into an ominous logic.”
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V. / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
V. / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: V. is darker, more serious, and less funny than Pynchon's later work.
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V. / int_1592e954	type	Man Bites Man
V. / int_1592e954	comment	Man Bites Man: Ploy, a crewmember on the Scaffold who had his teeth removed by the Navy and replaced with dentures, amuses himself by filing the new teeth into points and biting waitresses at the Sailor's Grave on their rears.
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V. / int_15f42962	type	Parents in Distress
V. / int_15f42962	comment	Parents in Distress: Evan Godolphin quickly comes to Florence to meet his father when he receives a message implying Hugh is in danger. It’s implied this never happened, and it’s really just Stencil trying to ease his guilt over ignoring his own father’s last message before he died.
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V. / int_16ddefda	type	Alcohol-Induced Idiocy
V. / int_16ddefda	comment	Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: Everywhere, particularly around Pig Bodine. In his final appearance, it gets him arrested for going AWOL.
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V. / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
V. / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: As Eigenvalue points out, Stencil tends to “Stencilize” the material he researches and twists it to suit his obsession with V.
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V. / int_1bc2e445	type	End of an Age
V. / int_1bc2e445	comment	End of an Age: Several characters dwell on the First World War as this, having caused a collective loss of innocence toward society and revealed the mass-destructive potential of technology. Sidney Stencil in particular mourns the loss of “gentlemanly” warfare and espionage where conflicts were decided by the abilities of individuals rather than impersonal forces.
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V. / int_1e4a1e0e	type	I Owe You My Life
V. / int_1e4a1e0e	comment	I Owe You My Life: Pig Bodine to Benny, after Benny inadvertently saved him from frying himself (or at least his testicles) with radiation from a radar antenna. Pig had run out of condoms and heard a rumour that it would make him temporarily sterile.
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V. / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
V. / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Vagina impalement, colonial cruelty, off-screen castration with the victim’s penis found in his sewed mouth. You get the idea.
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V. / int_1f137e42	type	Artificial Limbs
V. / int_1f137e42	comment	Artificial Limbs: By the 1940s, V. has acquired a glass eye with the iris in the shape of a clockface, an artificial foot, a set of false teeth, and possibly more. These are stolen by a group of children while she is trapped and dying under a fallen beam.
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V. / int_2207b002	type	Ambiguously Brown
V. / int_2207b002	comment	Ambiguously Brown: Paola, who is Maltese but can pass for African-American.
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V. / int_2b1d7c0a	type	The Drifter
V. / int_2b1d7c0a	comment	The Drifter: Benny Profane (“a human yo-yo”) had been wandering up and down the East Coast chasing temporary work for some time when the novel begins.
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V. / int_312b02ac	type	Lipstick Lesbian
V. / int_312b02ac	comment	Lipstick Lesbian: Mélanie l’Heuremaudit.
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V. / int_31fa019d	type	All Psychology Is Freudian
V. / int_31fa019d	comment	All Psychology Is Freudian: Averted humorously with Dr. Eigenvalue, who has developed his own system of “psychodontism” which applies orthodontic concepts to human psychology, with his dentist’s chair serving as a Freudian Couch.
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V. / int_362461f6	type	Sex Slave
V. / int_362461f6	comment	Sex Slave: The Herero women kept in the prison camp in Mondaugen’s story. The soldiers wonder if these women or the ones used for slave labour are worse off, since they are all ultimately killed.
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V. / int_3699bf0a	type	Eerily Out-of-Place Object
V. / int_3699bf0a	comment	Eerily Out-of-Place Object: The rainbow-coloured monkey from Vheissu which Godolphin finds waiting for him under the ice in Antarctica.
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V. / int_39ed1c8a	type	Conspiracy Theorist
V. / int_39ed1c8a	comment	Conspiracy Theorist: Herbert Stencil, who obsessively hunts a figure named V. and comes to believe that there’s a sinister logic connecting all the events he researches to find her.
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V. / int_3b4f620a	type	No Fourth Wall
V. / int_3b4f620a	comment	No Fourth Wall: Was dropped once.
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V. / int_3d134824	type	Letter Motif
V. / int_3d134824	comment	Letter Motif: V.
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V. / int_3f0b2f50	type	Make It Look Like an Accident
V. / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Make It Look Like an Accident: It’s implied in Mondaugen’s story that colonial soldiers who object to the massacre are sometimes shot by their comrades.
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V. / int_4371a515	type	Beatnik
V. / int_4371a515	comment	Beatnik: The Whole Sick Crew, though they arrived late to the movement (like Pynchon himself, according to his introduction to Slow Learner), and are mostly spectators.
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V. / int_4756a7f	type	Bourgeois Bohemian
V. / int_4756a7f	comment	Bourgeois Bohemian: The Whole Sick Crew again, who spend a lot of time getting drunk and discussing other people’s art without making any themselves (besides Slab and his cheese danishes).
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V. / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
V. / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Benny Profane, to the point that he believes inanimate objects are consciously out to get him.
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V. / int_4b1ca7d2	type	Genre Roulette
V. / int_4b1ca7d2	comment	Genre Roulette: The tone shifts numerous of times from Kafka Komedy to depressing and bleak. In terms of literary genres, Benny’s storyline is mostly a comic slice-of-life plot following his attempts to find stable footing in New York; while Stencil’s varies between deconstructive spy fiction, colonial adventure stories, mystery, Gothic, and conspiracy fiction. Fausto Maijstral’s chapter is a confession in the style of Rousseau or Henry Adams.
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V. / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
V. / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Sidney Stencil died with the rest of the boat crew in the waterspout.
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V. / int_4f62bde6	type	Kavorka Man
V. / int_4f62bde6	comment	Kavorka Man: Benny, a slovenly, unemployed and passive man, is constantly having advances made on him by attractive young women.
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V. / int_52c0c7cf	type	Motive Decay
V. / int_52c0c7cf	comment	Motive Decay: Schoenmaker originally became a plastic surgeon to help young men like Evan Godolphin who were injured in the war. He eventually comes to see himself as merely mopping up some of the damage done to people by the outside world and apathetically makes all his patients conventionally attractive.
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V. / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
V. / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The ending of Valletta chapter parallels with the beginning when Profane entered the scene wearing a big cowboy hat.
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V. / int_533bc7ae	type	Cybernetics Eat Your Soul
V. / int_533bc7ae	comment	Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: V. becomes more cruel and amoral the more inanimate matter she incorporates into her body. The artificial parts ultimately supersede her when she dies in the bombing raid and they end up dispersed across the world.
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V. / int_59e5940e	type	AnimalMotif
V. / int_59e5940e	comment	Animal Motif: A female rat named Veronica.
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V. / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
V. / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: Although there were several themes laid out including madness, paranoia, friendship, loneliness and entropy, obsession seems to be the central focus.
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V. / int_5deb34da	type	Ace Pilot
V. / int_5deb34da	comment	Ace Pilot: Evan Godolphin during WWI, before a crash destroys his face.
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V. / int_606244c2	type	Parental Incest
V. / int_606244c2	comment	Parental Incest: Mélanie and her father.
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V. / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
V. / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: Stencil, once he gets to Malta and comes perilously close to exhausting his obsession with V. He becomes even more obsessive and paranoid than usual, compulsively repeating his Madness Mantra to himself and walking at all hours of the night. Finally he runs away on what’s most likely a wild goose chase to find V.’s glass eye.
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V. / int_62df7833	type	Multiple Narrative Modes
V. / int_62df7833	comment	Multiple Narrative Modes
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V. / int_6654b17b	type	Facial Horror
V. / int_6654b17b	comment	Facial Horror: Evan Godolphin, following the crash during the First World War.
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V. / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
V. / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: Stencil never knew his mother, and it’s repeatedly suggested that he thinks V. is her.
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V. / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
V. / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: A Pynchon trademark. It’s unclear how meaningful any of the names actually are, but they’re almost all improbable enough that they seem like they’re driving at something (which, if they’re actually meaningless, could itself be the joke). However, some—like “Stencil”, “Profane” and “l’Heuremaudit”—are undeniably appropriate for their characters.
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V. / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
V. / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Roony delivers one to the Whole Sick Crew, calling out their artistic pretensions and moral turpitude.
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V. / int_7f8ec449	type	Bold Explorer
V. / int_7f8ec449	comment	Bold Explorer: Hugh Godolphin in his younger days, which led him to (supposedly) discover Vheissu.
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V. / int_801c7e4a	type	Quest for Identity
V. / int_801c7e4a	comment	Quest for Identity: Stencil’s hunt for V., with a twist: the hunt itself is what gives him his sense of identity, and actually finding her would mean losing it because the quest would be over. He’s effectively trapped himself in a game of “approach and avoid”, and the contradiction causes his mental breakdown on Malta.
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V. / int_80b5924	type	Left Hanging
V. / int_80b5924	comment	Left Hanging: See No Ending.
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V. / int_826ffcc8	type	Demonic Dummy
V. / int_826ffcc8	comment	Demonic Dummy: SHOCK and SHROUD, the test dummies at Anthroresearch Associates. Particularly SHROUD, which is made from an actual human skeleton covered in artificial skin and whispers ominous things to Profane when he's working late.
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V. / int_82accf22	type	Gainax Ending
V. / int_82accf22	comment	Gainax Ending: Stencil abandons Benny on Malta to hunt for V.’s artificial body parts in Sweden. Benny meets a girl in Valletta and they run off together into the night. The novel ends with an account of the final months of Stencil's father, an old-world spy who is put out to pasture on Malta and is killed when he and his boat are swept up in a waterspout.
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V. / int_8387bb18	type	Good Girls Avoid Abortion
V. / int_8387bb18	comment	Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Rachel and Benny chase Esther to the airport to stop her going to Cuba for an abortion. They fail.
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V. / int_8b5e8731	type	Kudzu Plot
V. / int_8b5e8731	comment	Kudzu Plot: This passage sums up the entire book.
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V. / int_8b6e8d7	type	Anachronic Order
V. / int_8b6e8d7	comment	Anachronic Order: Profane’s story is the second, and the Stencil’s story is the first.
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V. / int_8c681acc	type	Third-Person Person
V. / int_8c681acc	comment	Third-Person Person: Stencil always speaks in third person as a “forcible dislocation of personality” to make his reconstruction of other people’s histories easier.
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V. / int_9014df71	type	Saying Sound Effects Out Loud
V. / int_9014df71	comment	Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: Da Conho, a Brazilian Zionist Benny works for, likes to play with a machine gun he bartered for from a marine by camoflaging it with lettuce, strafing his customers and yelling “Yibble, yibble” to imitate gunfire along with Islamophobic taunts. The narrator snarks that Conho’s is the only machine gun in the world to go “yibble, yibble”.
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V. / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
V. / int_9245d989	comment	Sinister Minister: The “Bad Priest” during the siege of Malta, who the locals believe preaches heresy to children and who tries to persuade Elena Maijstral to abort her baby (i.e., Paola). It’s actually the final incarnation of V.
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V. / int_945a09d5	type	The End Is Nigh
V. / int_945a09d5	comment	The End Is Nigh: The insane priest Father Fairing becomes convinced that the apocalypse is coming and that only the rats will survive, so he moves into the sewers under New York to preach Christianity to them.
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V. / int_96144372	type	Aristocrats Are Evil
V. / int_96144372	comment	Aristocrats Are Evil: The German colonists at Foppl’s mansion during the siege party. They pop champagne while watching Hereros being surrounded and killed by German soldiers, beat and murder their Bondel slaves, and reminisce about the atrocities committed under Lothar von Trotha in the Herero Wars.
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V. / int_969ea113	type	Ballet
V. / int_969ea113	comment	Ballet: L’Enlèvement des Vierges Chinoises (The Rape of the Chinese Virgins), in which Mélanie l’Heuremaudit performs the lead role. She is accidentally impaled and killed onstage, thanks to forgetting her protective equipment.
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V. / int_97a82530	type	Sewer Gator
V. / int_97a82530	comment	Sewer Gator: In chapter 5, Benny Profane hunts with the Alligator Patrol in the sewers of Manhattan. According to the narration, he had already managed to bag four gators and a rat during his first two weeks on the job.
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V. / int_99a12edd	type	Cyborg
V. / int_99a12edd	comment	Cyborg: Bongo-Shaftsbury scares Mildred Wren by showing off the switch and wires embedded in his arm, but doesn’t reveal what they do. Maijstral also wonders if V. has synthetic organs and clockwork mechanisms under her skin as he watches her being disassembled by a group of children.
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V. / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
V. / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash
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V. / int_a7b3134	comment	I Just Want to Be Loved: Esther Harvitz. Her desperation to have someone desire her leads her to get far more plastic surgery than she can afford and an unhealthy affair with Schoenmaker.
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V. / int_aec19d54	type	Hyperlink Story
V. / int_aec19d54	comment	Hyperlink Story: Chapter Three, where Stencil retells the events of Pynchon’s earlier short story “Under the Rose” from the perspectives of various background characters who each get a glimpse of the central action.
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V. / int_b3de39a6	comment	Sex Bot: Benny fantasises about one while in a rough patch with Rachel. In a story about humans being overwhelmed and consumed by inanimate forces, it’s an unsettling image.
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V. / int_b51128fa	type	Gilded Cage
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V. / int_b871de85	comment	Annoying Laugh: Pig Bodine’s, which is given as “hyeugh, hyeugh”. He goes out of his way to make it as obnoxious as possible.
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V. / int_be03ba89	type	Lost World
V. / int_be03ba89	comment	Lost World: Subverted with Vheissu. It’s certainly exotic by Godolphin’s account and isolated from the rest of the world, but he dismisses the idea that it's some magical utopia as a bunch of colonialist fantasy,
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V. / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
V. / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: Knowing that this is Pynchon’s first novel, it contains all of his trademarks that will likely make the readers loses their mind. The novel gets much more complicated as it progresses.
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V. / int_c0961831	type	Interrupted Suicide
V. / int_c0961831	comment	Interrupted Suicide: Roony Winsome attempts suicide by jumping out of the apartment window, but lands face-first on the fire escape. He then tries to jump over the fire escape, but Pig manages to catch him by the belt and haul him to safety.
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V. / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
V. / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: SHROUD (“Synthetic human, radiation output determined”) and SHOCK (“synthetic human object, casualty kinematics”).
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V. / int_c3fbac64	type	Bestiality Is Depraved
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V. / int_ce9da072	type	Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic
V. / int_ce9da072	comment	Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic: Characters frequently drop words, speak in 50’s-era New York slang, and are written with unusual punctuation to replicate their speech patterns.
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V. / int_d17eaa9f	type	Postmodernism
V. / int_d17eaa9f	comment	Postmodernism: Subverted. V., unlike Pynchon’s later work, is more Modernism and Surrealism than Postmodernism.
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V. / int_d72a4480	type	Romanticized Abuse
V. / int_d72a4480	comment	Romanticized Abuse: In-Universe. Willem van Wijk in Mondaugen’s story who rapes and kidnaps Sarah, the young Herero girl, and keeps her chained in his house so that he can imagine he has a wife to look after.
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V. / int_d94ff9b3	type	Wall of Text
V. / int_d94ff9b3	comment	Wall of Text: Here’s one:
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V. / int_deea2fb5	type	Idle Rich
V. / int_deea2fb5	comment	Idle Rich: Stencil, though not wealthy, has a stable income left to him by his father and a wide network of contacts he can mooch from, so he spent his early life aimlessly indulging in hedonism.
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V. / int_deecc9eb	type	Awful Wedded Life
V. / int_deecc9eb	comment	Awful Wedded Life: Mafia and Rooney Winsome, who cheat on each other and have nothing in common. Pappy Hod and Paola as well, though they reconcile by the end.
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V. / int_e0b6edec	type	OnlySaneWoman
V. / int_e0b6edec	comment	Only Sane Woman: Rachel Owlglass is easily the most well-adjusted person associated with the Whole Sick Crew, and even she has an erotic obsession with her MG.
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V. / int_ea2e9f2d	type	No Ending
V. / int_ea2e9f2d	comment	No Ending: Both Herbert, and Profane’s fate are left open ended.
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V. / int_eff65ef6	type	Chained to a Bed
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V. / int_f6b698ac	type	Complexity Addiction
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V. / int_f85354eb	type	Attempted Rape
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V. / int_f96f188c	type	Drives Like Crazy
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