GRGR(5): note on Katje

[Scott Badger]

>She brings death to
>"families" and "kids", and yet we can still construct and announce our
>sense of her 'humanity' and her 'nobility', even her 'idealism'. It's
>really quite an exceptional effect Pynchon has rendered.

The same effect, I think - and mentioned before I believe -, that we find
with Frenesi.  There has been recent talk, and during VLVL about Frenesi,
that they take the "selfish" or easy way.  I've never understood this.  I
can't imagine how they could have put themselves in more dangerous, more
punishing - more lonely - postions.  Why?

Scott Badger