VLVL DL & Frenesi

Ghetta Life ghetta_outta at hotmail.com
Fri Dec 12 16:20:31 CST 2003


Yep.  Strong lesbian implications, but no explicit sex.  Frenesi would 
probably be open to it, and DL is almost a stereotypical "butch" (but also 
"lipstick") lesbian.  As we know, fetishes are a big thing in Pynchon's 
writing (not a "good" thing), so it's a pretty big deal that DL becomes, 
literally, a Frenesi-fetish intended for Brock.

>From: jbor <jbor at bigpond.com>
>
>     ... With her bare thighs Frenesi gripped the leather hips of her
>     benefactor, finding that she'd also pressed her face against
>     the fragrant leather back -- she never thought it might be a
>     woman she hugged this way.
>        Biker rapture for sure. (117)
>
>     ... But the shock had been different for DL -- it was in finding out
>     that he [i.e. Brock] loved Frenesi but did not possess her, and was
>     driven to fetishism in faraway countries as his only outlet, helpless
>     to change -- obsessed, though it gagged her to admit it, as DL. (141)

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