VLVL Frenesi & Brock

[jbor]

on 9/8/03 8:37 PM, lorentzen-nicklaus at lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de
wrote:

> so your point was -- what?

Just what I wrote. Frenesi was the one who went after Brock, not vice versa.
See pp. 199-201. In particular:

    She was wondering instead why she'd worn this little miniskirt
    today when it would have made more sense to wear pants. (201.20)

She gets back with him again after she has left Zoyd and Prairie too, when
Brock's "erect penis had become the joystick with which, hurtling into the
future, she would keep trying to steer among the hazards and obstacles ... "
                                                                    (292-3)

best


>> 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)