VLVL2(10) Power to Restore memory
Terrance
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Tue Dec 30 11:58:32 CST 2003
Bandwraith at aol.com wrote:
>
> 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.
Sounds like you are agreeing with RC.
History is too innocent, to be left within the reach of anyone in Power,
who need but touch her, and all her Credit is in the instant vanish'd,
as if it had never been.
She needs rather to be tended lovingly and honorably by fabulists and
counterfeiters, Ballad-Mongers and Cranks of ev'ry Radius, Masters of
Disguise to provide her the Costume, Toilette, and Bearing, and Speech
nimble enough to keep her beyond the Desires, or even the Curiosity, of
Government...
Practitioners, to survive, must soon learn the arts of the quidnunc,
spy and Taproom Wit ...
DL and Takeshi & Co. are a lot like RC.
Of course, as we discovered in our reading of M&D, RC's ideas about
history are problematic. RC is not the author of M&D. How is Nabokov or
Roth for that matter related to Pynchon?
Her story must "be tended lovingly and honorably by fabulists and
conterfeiters, Ballad-Mongers and Cranks of ev'ry Radius"?
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