VLVL2 (4) On history

[Terrance]

Paul Nightingale wrote:
> 
> However, to this point, in a narrative centred on Zoyd, the two kinds of
> history have been kept apart. Hector juxtaposes the "real revolution"
> (from above) to the "little fantasy handjob you people was into" (27).
> The flashback to (the end of) "the Mellow Sixties" (interesting caps,
> signifying myth-in-making in anticipation of "greeting cards in another
> few years") speculates that Zoyd/Frenesi's wedding is somehow
> unconnected to real capital-H History, "off on some other planet" (38).
> As jbor notes, the point being it isn't. However, this begs the question
> why, what is the narrative function of this arbitrary separation of the
> personal from the national/collective/Official? A separation that the
> text acknowledges, precisely in order to deny it (just as Frenesi, in
> Chs3-4, is absent rather than not-present).
> 

It's a bit more complex than that. Isn't it? 

Everyone is remembering and/or interpreting (even if they were not born
when the events took place) the past differently. In Zoyd's case, we
also need to keep in mind  that on so many of the Kodac moments in his
life he was on LSD. 

Welcome to Hallmark. On this planet,  your wedding, the birth of your
child, all the Kodac moments in your life will be Kodachromed into your
memory. 

Mars? 

Oh Arnold, Mars ain't the kinda place ....