VLVL Frenesi

[Terrance]

> 
> I seriously doubt that Frenesi's meant to be a student of Lewis Mumford,
> though I'm open to persuasion. 

Not Frenesi, Pynchon. Pynchon read Mumford. 


Her zeal and mystical fascination with
> "light" characterises her vision as something akin to religious revelation
> (cf. 202.4-10), and it sets her up as some sort of false prophet.

She got a lot of that fascination with light from old man. He fell head
over heels for the big bright machine. 


> 
> The point here seems to be that her idealistic humanism was both instinctive
> and sincere. 


Her idealistic humanism? 

But, as readers, we also factor in the ease with which she was
> turned, how quickly these ideals were overwhelmed by Brock and by her own
> sexual instincts, and the treachery and negligence wrought as a result.
> She's a bit like Weissmann in _GR_ in this respect, and a cautionary fable
> against this style of revolutionary idealism.
> 
> best