Absences in VL

[Greg Montalbano]

At 06:25 PM 12/4/98 -0500, Sebastian wrote:
>>I think that what I'm getting at is that part fo the VL project is
>certainly a de-mythologization of the sixties, telling us that it really
>wasn't all about the War . . . that the sixties was the outhouse of the
>postwar soul . . .  that there's not such a gulf between many
>participants of that generation as they were then and are in 1984 . . .
>that Frenesi wasn't so much seduced by the Svengali stare of BV as she
>was searching for 'order' when her viewfinder landed on him . . . that
>vanity of vanities sayeth the preacher, all is vanity . . . 
>
>It's not a very nice story.  It's a pretty bitter tale.  

Agreed:  it's NOT a very nice story -- and yet, it's the closest thing to a
comic novel he's written so far (perhaps his way of expunging some of the
bitterness);  and there is, somehow, at the end of it all, a feeling of ...
well, not "redemption" so much as the POSSIBILITY of such.