VLVL [8] When BV possessed her

[Doug Millison]

>At 9:49 -0800 1/21/99, Paul Mackin wrote
>>Dare we entertain another sense,
>>the sense of bewitchment (or in this case beWARLOCKment perhaps) as in
>>satanic possession? Some Pynchon Magic rearing up to meet us?
>>There is something not EVERYDAY going on here.

At 2:39 PM -0800 1/21/99, David Casseres wrote:
>Slavery.

Using the light and film metaphors that filter Frenesi's world, she is a
"negative" of the slave Austra in M&D, Pynchon's view from the inside out
of a woman "possessed", holding an enigma at the core -- the sexual bond
with her lord and master -- and possessing an irreducible nub of
independence that her master can never dominate. Recall Austra led on a
leash, strangely defiant, among her captors, as we see Frenesi bantering
with BV at PREP (VL 273-274) and running away at her earliest opportunity.


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