VLVL: Frenesi's betrayal

[Doug Millison]

Thoughts about Frenesi, under Brock's tutelage, orchestrating Weed's
denunciation as a traitor and his assassination, and Pynchon's Jacobite
theme came to mind as I read this passage in an article in today's NY Times:

T"The Jacobins, for example, at first saw denunciations as the  highest
virtue of the Revolution, the path to total  transparency, Colin Lucas
writes in his essay in the collection.

The Jacobins tried to separate -- semantically and practically --   the
public-spirited denunciation ("denonciation") from the treacherous,
self-interested denunciation ("delation"). But as denunciations became an
instrument of the state, the revolutionaries concluded that "the notion of
virtuous denunciation simply did not hold up," Lucas writes.

http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/arts/tripp-denounce.html


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