Safe children

[Teen Age Riot]

Hi all,

More on the stuck-in-adolescence thread:

I've been rereading bits and pieces of VL recently, and came across this bit
on p216 that I glossed over the first time around.  It's where she's laying
next to Brock in the motel room:

"She understood as clearly as she could allow herself to what Brock wanted
her to do, understood at last, dismally, that she might even do it-- not for
him, unhappy fucker, but because she had lost just too much control, time
was rushing all around her, these were rapids, and as far ahead as she could
see it looked like Brock's stretch of the river, another stage, like sex,
children, surgery, further into adulthood perilous and real, into the secret
that life is soldiering, that soldiering includes death, that those
soldiered for, not yet and often never in on the secret, are always, at
every age, children."

I'm not sure what to make of this: a sense and fear of impending adulthood?
A glimmer of familial responsibility?  

Al


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