VLVL - Frenesi's Inscrutability

[Doug Millison]

I'm still learning about Pynchonian red herrings (and crave instruction
therein). Maybe Frenesi is nothing, not even a cipher, and maybe she's
evil, or, as I had to admit once about a person I was bound to stop dating,
maybe she does what she does because she's just horny and that's that; I
can't disagree with Chris that there's less to her than  meets the eye, nor
that this characterization is aptly applied elsewhere. Frenesi's family
still lets her come home when she loses her anonymity, though, because they
love her no matter what she's done; despite fervent assurances we've heard
today, the power of love is another philosophy that Pynchon hasn't been shy
about propounding again and again, among others.

I've just finished reading _A Heart So White_ by the Spanish novelist,
Javier Marias, and heartily recommend it. Among many other things, it's
about what happens when we tell secrets and scrape away layers of secrets
and anonymity.

-Doug



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