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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