Pynchon community &

[Terrance]

...the Pynchon industry...THE LIST, lawyers, cops, mental health care
professionals, the INS, riot squads, Rottweilers, Dobermanns,  Pinkerton
guards....Frenesi's affair with BV represents the betrayal of, not one,
but two oppositional traditions: leftist radicalism and matriarchal
feminism. Pynchon uses Frenesi's genealogy to set the radicalism of the
1960s in a much longer tradition. Her granfather ... "Heroic Wobbly" ...
"dream of one big Union" ... of "a commonwealth of toil that is to be"
... "getting used to being in jail" ... leftist Hollywood during the
McCarthy era. In this family it is the women--Eula and Sasha--who prove
to be the most enduring. ... Eula finds herself remembering "the first
time she was shot at, by Pinkertons in a camp up along the Mad River,
more clearly than the birth of her first child, who was Sasha." The fact
that both Sasha and Eula have undergone the experience of being shot at
by "vigilante and hired goons" forms and integral part of the
mother-daughter bond. 
Sasha's daughter, Frenesi, finds herself unable to continue either
tradition because of her fatal attraction fro Brock Vond, but Zoyd
proves himself to be an admirable replacement. What is ultimately at
stake in the rivalry between Brock Vond and Zoyd Wheeler is a battle
between to forms of communitarianism: one coercive, majoritarian, and
bad; the other voluntary, pluralistic, and good. 

Jesse:  In the Old Testament, King David's father and the progenitor of
the line of Jesus.