VLVL DL & Frenesi

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The interesting thing about the second passage is that DL recognised and
acknowledges to herself that her "obsession" with Frenesi (i.e. her "love",
her fetish") was exactly the same as Brock's:

     [...] Sometimes, waiting in her room, she'd wonder if this was all
    supposed to be some penance, to sit, caught inside the image of one
    she'd loved, been betrayed by, just sit. . . . (141)

She'd been driven to the edge of insanity by it, and in her "love" (and I
think it's clearly sexual love, though perhaps unrequited, rather than
platonic or sisterly love) for and betrayal by Frenesi she's exactly like
Zoyd, and Weed, and Brock, and Prairie as well.

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on 13/12/03 9:20 AM, Ghetta Life wrote:

> 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.

>> ... 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)
>