VLVL Prairie and DL

[Ghetta Life]

>From: jbor <jbor at bigpond.com>
>"whatever story she tells this kid must not, maybe could never, be the 
>story she knew." (101.1-2)

Is "the story she knew" the truth?  Not in a Pynchon novel.  The fact that 
DL knows this makes her a very special character, almost more than human.  
She doesn't exactly evade Prarie's question, at least not in the sense of 
wanting to keep her from the truth.  Rather she allows Prarie a means of 
discovering "the truth" about her mother from multiple sources and over an 
extended period of time.  And in some sense Prarie knows this is what DL is 
doing.  It's almost as if Prarie is being initiated into the secrets of the 
sisterhood, a process which takes time and has to be personally experienced.

Ghetta

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