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

[Scott Badger]

Bandwraith:

> 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.

Not about freedom and responsibility. Or being a parent, sez this parent.
Floyd's the one who gets it. IMHO, of course. I guess I'm not seeing the
Frenesi you're projecting.

There's a lot of family in Vineland..."family values", too....Interesting,
David, that we get Frenesi's family tree, daughter to mother, but Zoyd's,
and the husband/father's on Frenesi's side(if I remember correctly), are
left blank.

Scott Badger