VLVL2(10) Ditzah and DL- The real deal

[Terrance]

She looks like an "average suburban mom."  But is she? Prairie is
skeptical. Why is Prairie skeptical? Why does Prairie suspect that
Ditzah may be wearing a disguise? 
Prairie doesn't trust any of these folks. And she shouldn't. She meets
DL at Ralph's Estate. Ralph is a mobster. DL used to run with her
Mother. Not good. Ralph, Prairie discovers, literally bought and sold DL
after abducting her and auctioning her off in a Japanese white slavery
racket. Ralph puts her in whore house disguised as Frenesi and tapes her
sexual encounter with Takeshi. Who can you trust? Takeshi? His jest, 
they should dump the kid cause she's dangerous, is ironic. Ralph? Too
many guns.  Sister R.? At least she's got those ass kickers in black. 



What are they going to pass on to Prairie ? What have they given her
thus far? DL's trip down memory lane was a daisy chain of blame and be
blamed, disguises, decadence,  drugs, and grandiosity .  Why does
Prairie need this? Cause the Bewitched / Flintstones / Brady Bunch skip
over the dick wagging and baton beatings? Cause DL never did get to be a
famous lady ass kicker superwoman and get her own TV program on right
after Mod Squad? Why don't they take her into Watts, sic a shepherd on
her, blast her on the nose with the fire hose?  That will learn the kid.
Won't it? 


Transferring old film onto videotape and distributing them to friends
and family is not uncommon (199 last paragraph).  Disperse the archives
and they will be safer. Or will they? Safer from acts of God, curious
kids, rodents, the pitiless sun, but if old Brock Vond comes to town you
don't want those videotapes stashed under your kid's bunk beds. 
They could send a copy to a labor school. Sure. Why not? Lots of this
kind of film is being shown in classrooms. It's not like they were the
only ones doing this.  But notice that DL's friends all maintain 
scrapbooks, films, computer files, photos, of their friends and enemies
because they are obsessed with settling some score or they are obsessed
with one of the crew or Brock. Notice the irony that P introduces here
again when Prairie asks Ditzah if she can pause or freeze the shot of
BV. The film narrative is interrupted by the shot of BV (BV is
foregrounded)  and the question that focuses on BV and  technological
generation gap (film/videotape). Turn back to page 15. Zoyd's VCR is
broken. Isaiah Two Four has been taping Zoyd's window jumps and studying
them. Why? The kid likes violence. Blame it on the tube. The music. The
kid is impressed by Zoyd's death defying jumps. Zoyd is bad. Zoyd can do
bad. Hell, he's partners with Van Meter and his old buddy Hector is real
bad. 

Ah, but the young are always looking for adventure. Thinking they've got
some sort of immunity. But Takeshi and DL and Ralph and BV and Zoyd, and
Ditzah ain't young anymore. 


"Death, no idle prankster, is always, in this book, just outside the
window."  

Bandwraith at aol.com wrote:
> 
> Clearly DL and Ditzah have kept in touch all these years. The
> encounter in the current section is no chance meeting or rare
> reunion. DL knows exactly where Ditzah lives and that she is
> probably kidz-free for the summer. They are in touch.
> 
> There is no evidence to suggest that Ditzah has accommodated
> herself to any particularly indentifiable system, only that she is
> solvent. Her 1/2 hour commute might bring her to the offices of a
> Wayvone subsidiary, a sub-contractor for George Lucas, or
> some other film industry affiliate- we just don't know. She
> might even be living on alimony and volunteering her time and
> talent to some alternative media project, an updated version of
> 24fps.
> 
> What is evident is the unbroken feminine connection between her
> and DL that supercedes any system, and that now makes it possible
> to pass something precious on to Prairie. Frenesi, with her fatal
> tragic flaw, has slipped into the netherworld. Only these women have
> the power to restore her memory. Between Ditzah and DL, Prairie
> can begin to triangulate the lines of force once generated by Frenesi
> before her fall, in her prime, that held these two powerful women
> together.
> 
> respectfully