re. VLVL II: Frenesi & Brock

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

jbor schrieb:

> Frenesi is the one who goes after Brock, not vice versa.
>


  "' ... remember last time, when i told you not to bathe, hm? because i knew   
  you'd be seeing him that night, knew he'd go down on you --- didn't he? ate   
  your pussy, hm? of course i know, because he told me. you were coming in his  
  face and he was tasting me all the time ... you're the medium weed and i use  
  to communicate, that's all, this set of holes, pleasantly framed, this little 
  femme scampering back and forth with scented messages tucked in her little    
  secret places'." 


  --- sez brock (213f), and katherine hayles has more on the issue:


  "as in Gravity's Rainbow, the forbidden exercises its spell through sexual 
  obsession. the liaison, as dangerous politically for brock as for frenesi, 
  nevertheless is constituted through an asymmetrical power relation. brock is 
  the seducer; frenesi the seduced. the seduction is enacted by brock's 
  persuading frenesi to turn informant (209-10). 'to seduce' here returns to its 
  etymological meaning 'to separate' (from the latin  s e d u c e r e), for 
  frenesi's seduction marks her slippage from the kinship to the snitch system. 
  she is alienated by it both from her parents and from the allegiances of 
  24fps, the radical film collective she helped organize. attempting to 
  reestablish connection with a history she has lost, frenesi tries to reenter 
  the kinship system by leaving brock, marrying zoyd, and giving birth to 
  prairie."   (the vineland papers, pp. 17f) 


  so your point was -- what? 


  kfl +