VLVL2 (10) Alchemy, 192

[Terrance]

Otto wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Terrance" <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
> Cc: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 5:09 PM
> Subject: Re: VLVL2 (10) Alchemy, 192
> >
> > > >
> > > > Why is Prairie's quest for
> > > > her Mother being directed by a generation
> > > > of losers
> > > >
> > >
> > > Because these are the people her mother has been with.
> >
> > Been with? As in "been with"  sexually?
> > It's fairly obvious that DL and Frenesi were lovers and friends.
> >
> 
> I'd like to see that proven with textual evidence.

Are you asking me to prove that DL and Frenesi were lovers? 
They were friends, they used to run together ... and it seem to me that
they were much more than just friends, that DL has "been with" Frenesi
and that is one of the reasons why DL temporizes and tap dances and
walks on egg shells from time to time during her narrative.  Can't you
just here Prairie say, "you mean you were with my Mom?" You mean my Mom
killed some guy. Sex and murder. Love & Death. The sexual obsession
(i.e.,  DL and Brock Vond) is sexual.   At one point DL is paranoid
enough to suspect that Ralph has set her up and is getting off on it
(VL.141). Notice that DL admits that her obsession is like Brock Vond's.
Why does Ralph go to so much trouble to get DL into a whore house
disguised as Frenesi? Oh yeah, she can put the death touch on him and
he'll drop dead when Ralph & Co. are playing poker with the chief of
police. Come on, must be more to it than that. Right? 

If you are looking for a scene where Frenesi, in chains, her head pushed
down between DL's pussy, smells the machine in DL thighs, forget about
it.