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| Victoria's family in 1846 by Franz Xaver Winterhalter |
I think there's something in the swapping of Virginia (virgin) for Victoria (victory). Both with the morphologically suggestive "V" but the latter implying how that power now vanquishes the phallic. Also with the incognito mode topics of last night, I see it in terms of "Victoria's Secret," which has played a strangely profound role in the American cultural psyche over the last seemingly 25 years.
I'm sure much could be made of the connection to the Queen, but those weren't the first references that came to mind.
Does Steffi rename herself this when she envelops Farthington and moves to California? Interestingly, the Steve Jobs connections may bring us full circle to Conrad's Congo, which has had been exploited nonstop since the days of Leopold, first for ivory, then rubber, then uranium, and now--what Steve Jobs needs most--coltan. In each passing era, the Congo has had the world's largest supply. It might be interesting--maybe too controversial since his beatification process in Western culture is already well underway--to suggest that Steffi (Victoria) caused him to die through coltan poisoning.
I love the L.A. idea. So rich, so much the bizarro counterpoint to Detroit. And you have such a deep appreciation of it, almost on a par with what you have for Detroit.
I love that this could all be part of the turbulent reversals, going from the substantial to the insubstantial:
- The move from industrial giants in Hitsville U.S.A. to the silver screen in Hollywood
- Then, the further transitions from the silver screen to software to "the cloud"
- And yet we make ourselves godlike on the backs of near slave labor around the world--kind of a combination of the Pyramids and the Tower of Babel
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