VLVL2 (9): "Clitorally Ladylike"

[Terrance]

Tim Strzechowski wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, two maturbators in love with Lady-Death.
> >
> > She dreams of a  Mysterious Oneness. The Key to this novel and we just
> > passed it by.
> >
> 
> Please elaborate.  What "key" to what?  How?

Isn't Frenzy the Key?  Sure she is. She is the one who wanted to kill
Prairie, abort her, murder her new born babe. Why? Postpartum
Depression? Shattered dreams? What? She gonna stand there with a kid on
one hip and a camera on the other? 

Frenesi dreamed of a mysterious people's oneness. 

Not exactly one big union. 

drawing together toward the best chance of light, achieved once or twice
that she'd seen in the street, 

the street? 

V. stuff here

in short, timeless bursts (odd title for that essay)

all paths, human and projectile, true, the people in a single presence,
the police likewise simple as a moving blade

here comes the blood! 


Brazil and Argentina and other neighboring countries  experienced a
particularly draconian form of military tyranny in the 60s, 70s,  and
80s, which happen to be the decades  Pynchon's VL is set in. 

The literature: 




Lynch's novels are notable for their exploration of the impact of
patriarchal authoritarianism on feminine consciousness. 

http://www.system.missouri.edu/upress/spring1995/foster.htm

Gambaro & Co. 

http://www.frontlist.com/detail/082233240X

Mendoza

Her novel De Ausencia repudiates desexualization ... tbc