Re. Warped and Distilled?

[calbert at pop.tiac.net]

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

Oh thats for sure, with the usual P. twist. The traditional battle 
would be twixt the Eisenhower repub parents and the doob twisting 
spawn of McCarthy, but Frenesi revolts against her "lefty" origins.
I'll forego any analysis of P intent in this regard.

> Frenesi does seem stricken with a death wish.

That's why I thing the little geneology bit is so underestimated. 
What is, on the surface, a touching family epic, is constantly 
undercut by the occasional cartoonish hyperbole. I guess if you have 
lived on a steady diet of "goodness" over several generations, evil 
will have a certain cachet. That uniform fetish does cross 
generations, sorta like a bad seed. Combine enough undesireable 
recessives, et voila, the apparent enigma of Frenesi. 

love,
cfa