VLVL [8] When BV possessed her

David Casseres casseres at apple.com
Tue Jan 26 10:29:19 CST 1999


At 20:12 -0800 1/25/99, Paul Mackin wrote:
>The possession Neil describes is limited, finite possession. So BV can't
>be happy. A real man wants absolute possession over the woman, which as
>everyone knows requires he make himself indispensible to her. But wily
>Frenesi has an ace in the hole--name of DL who loves her. There is your
>power of love.

There it is, indeed.  Though I think maybe Frenesi thinks her ace in the
hole is her daughter.  But it's interesting to see that Vond, with all his
power, is in fact a loser -- and not just when his power slips at the end,
but from the start.

Cheers,
David



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