VLVL Girl Interrupting

jbor jbor at bigpond.com
Wed Nov 12 15:36:49 CST 2003


Twice Prairie interrupts the flashback narration, once at 141.5-10 and again
at 149.14-36.

The first interruption confirms that DL never did tell Prairie about the
relationship between Frenesi and Brock (and how come there wasn't anything
about it on the computer at the retreat?) And it also inspires DL to reflect
that she was more appalled by the fact that she and Brock were alike in that
they both "loved" Frenesi, than by Frenesi's actual dalliance with him, the
embodiment of "everything we were supposed to be against" (141.12-16). NB
that "supposed to be", and the admission which follows.

The second is more of a comic interlude, sit-com repartee. And we find out
that Takeshi (who looks like Brock, who looks like Bobby Kennedy) also looks
like Moe from The Three Stooges (cf. _M&D_ 764.34).

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