Is Brock Vond a NAZI?

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Tue Feb 18 06:48:04 CST 2003


VL.130  BV’s FBI photo
  VL.148  Takeshi’s sees BV for the first time “it was himself and
something
  radical, like death,
cartoon,..shaved..
  VL. 150 “must be his lookalike” Vond-san
  VL. 151 “your still calling him Brock
  VL 151  contacts (blue) transpersonal mode “same size and body format”
  VL. 152 “the lenses had been taken from the eyes of a dead person”
  VL. 159  “somebody thought I was-somebody else
 she was somebody else”
  VL. 199 “BV? Can you put it on pause, freeze it?”
  VL 200  “she didn't know who he was. Or maybe she did.
  VL. 200 “BV was more photogenic
”
  VL. 216 “BV was not ‘really’ what he looked like to everybody else-
”
  VL. 263 BV’s birth sign
  VL. 272 “one elbow on the car roof,
” VL. 274 “Germanic sedan.”
  VL. 276 Lombrosian analysis of BV, “BV didn't 
look like one either.”
  VL. 287 “sleek raptors that decorate fascist architecture.”
  VL. 298, gnathic index BV vs Zoyd in Lomb. System
  VL. 345 “Don’t you know anymore what BV is?”
  VL. 375 “Death  from slightly above.”


BV amorphousness develops in both directions, Left (Kennedy) and Right
(Ray-Gun). 
There is no doubt about what Patell says, there is clearly a  sexual
obsession, the S&M (this is not new to Pynchon's novels, it's there in
TCL49 and GR) relations of the radicals and repressive government. 

What Patell misses, is the reason for it. He says that we are never told
why Frenesi is obsessed with Brock and why he is obsessed with her. We
are told why. We are told again and again and again, it's major Pynchon
theme and keeps re-writing it, banging away at the same formula. Also,
Patell is right on about the narrative structure.



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