VLVL(6) - the genius of Brock - WAS - The Children of the 60's

[Paul Mackin]

On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Neil Conaty wrote:

> This is, of course, incredibly obvious and maybe even done to death
> already, but I haven't been keeping up with my p-list reading.
> 
> How does Brock know that Frenesi is in the 90%, that she's not really in
> it for real. He knows there is a possibiIity of turning her the first
> time he sees her, even knows 'bout her fetish (201.16 'Then a man in a
> uniform, with a big pistol, would have to make you come.') I get the
> feeling he wouldn't waste ten seconds on DL, even though she sez she's
> only in it to bust heads. 
> He wouldn't make the same mistake human Hector made with Zoyd and waste
> any time on him. Despite outward appearance and nonpolitical status, Z is
> in it (his [extended] family) for real.
> That Brock, he's a regular sorting machine.


Not all that obvious it seems to me. In fact for this admittedly not very
close reader P has made things murky and relatively indecipherable. Is it
something in Brock or something in Frenesi? If the latter is it lust (not
likely despite her protestations) or fear? I thought that maybe three
generations of activism and being hassled by the authorities may have been
tantamount to some kind of family senstitity training so as to be 
particularly wary of street action consequences, disseminated possibily
by Lysenkonian herditary tranfer, and manifested to the uncritical eye by
that famous attraction to uniforms. For me then, why is P so mysterious
about what happens once F gets B in her camera eye?

				P.