Re. Warped and Distilled?

Paul Mackin pmackin at clark.net
Wed Jan 13 15:21:26 CST 1999



On Wed, 13 Jan 1999 calbert at pop.tiac.net wrote:

> > And
> > aside from her working class stuggle background what do really know about
> > Frenesi except that she is beautiful and adored by men and women like?
> 
> Am i the only one who is simple minded enough to believe that the 
> geneology of Frenesi provides a perfectly functional blue print of 
> her character?
> 
> She is sort of the reverse Eugene Debs Rostow (sp?).



I see what you mean. Then there was the other Cold Warrior brother
W. W. Rostow. ( Walt Whitman???)  The w spelling is correct though as I
recall it was PRONOUNCED Ross-toff.

So the whole thing becomes Oedipa(L). Intergenerational battle to the
death--which fits the sixties all right.

Frenesi does seem stricken with a death wish.

Way to go, Charles.

			P.






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