VLVL 98-103
Terrance
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Tue Oct 14 09:54:53 CDT 2003
> Prairie and DL discover their common link; Prairie tells DL about Brock
> Vond's reappearance on the scene, and DL begins to tell Prairie the story
> of her mother. The story assumes the form of a fiction--DL realizes that
> "whatever story [she] told this kid must not, maybe could never, be the
> story she knew" (101); fittingly, the "kid" who dreads and hungers for the
> truth (99) will be lied to--although her refusal of the status ("kid")
> shifts DL's fiction into truth-telling. Prairie asserts herself bluntly:
> "... you want to hear mine before you'll tell me yours" (101), the quid
> pro quo of sexual exploration.
Zoyd says, "Keep'em legs together teen bimbo."
And Prairie turns with the business end of that hair brush pointed at DL
who is standing just a little too close for comfort, "a little too
close, tall and fair, wearing a green party dress that might have gone
with her hair but not with the way she carried herself, athletic, even
warriorlike, watching the girl in a weirdly familiar way, as if she were
about to continue a conversation."
With her ex-lover, Frenesi.
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