VLVL(4)(j) Love Marriage

[Don Corathers]

Is there something in the text that suggests the union of Zoyd and Frenesi
was unsanctioned by the state? Couldn't find anything.

There was a divorce, mentioned obliquely after Zoyd gets to Vineland: "Zoyd
didn't get points either for the divorce, though if he had custody and
nobody'd seen Frenesi for years, it didn't make her look much better." (320)
So apparently this was a legal wedding, except for, you know, the punch.

Don


----- Original Message -----
From: "Vincent A. Maeder" <vmaeder at cyhc-law.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 11:07 AM
Subject: VLVL(4)(j) Love Marriage


> Oh and there is a wedding going on, but they won't notice us
> passing through here, simply keep your voices low--to a murmur--and
> watch these long-haireds gaze wide-dilated into some unseen future,
> organic cloth dresses swaying in the breeze, some tripped out dude
> minister type giving the funky vows--otherwise it wouldn't be legal,
> right?  A wedding without some marriage license?  Funky, dude, we don't
> need a license cause it's love.  Or maybe that's the point; a love
> marriage yet Mr. Wheeler and Ms. Gates were never "married"?  (VL, Ch.
> 4, pp. 38-39)  Please, put on your cogitation headgear.
>