Children of the revolution? (is: VLVL2 warm-up)

[Bandwraith at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/19/03 8:25:05 PM, lupine at ncia.net writes:

<< Bandwraith:

> Keyword: "Volunteers," as if there were alternatives, Well, maybe there

> were, but for Prairie? By the end there may be one for her, too. In my

> projection she spends the rest of her teen years with her mom (helps

> her through the split-up with Flash) and visits Zoyd maybe once a month,

> a couple of weeks in the summer, sort of thing. 


>From the olden days:

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9812&msg=34314&sort=date


Scott >>

Hi Scott,

Pleasant male fantasy, that- The wide open prairie, a tabula rasa,
just waiting for the plow... or to be saved, as it were, from her
virginity. I think she might be a little more hip than that, though.

Certainly, her innocence is suspect, as, ultimately, is the guilt of
Frenesi, who, in her own mediating way will be seen to have prevailed,
while Vond is re-educated about the responsibilities of three
dimensionality. She fucks all of the major male characters, and
dances with Hector. Gnossos Pappadopoulis would have envied her
immunity.

Frenesi, I think, bears some resemblances to Harold Bloom's
Yahwist- the woman behind God. Remember the infidelities of
the Israelites- just drove those early rabbi's wild- but kept the
germ line healthy, not to mention their consorting early Christian 
and Sufi mystics, with whom they shared much secret knowledge.
Fertile ground for the soul. Frenesi may operate as a
manifestation of the female aspect of the author, much like
Bloom's Yahwist. She knows more than anyone.

respectfully