VLVL Prairie and DL

[Terrance]

> 
> I don't think there are "homosexual overtones present in every chapter thus
> far", as you stated, and I disagree that Prairie's response to DL is sexual.

"Just for a moment in the mirror there I thought you were somebody you
couldn't be." 

This is DL talking with Prairie (100.4). 

(we might compare/contrast this mirror talk and haunting with at least
three earlier scenes: Zoyd in the plane talking to himself in the
mirror, Zoyd's telling Prairie about how he haunts Frenesi and Prairie's
being creeped out by it, Zoyd's haunting of Frenesi in the hotel in
Hawaii. Of course there will be others as we read on)

That "Somebody" is Frenesi. 

DL was standing behind Prairie as Prairie was fixing her hair and face
so as to fade out Zoyd's features and creep herself out by imagining
that what she sees in the mirror is her mother's ghost. (bottom page
98-top 99) 

Prairie imagines that her mother will begin telling her things she'd
rather not hear or things she dying to hear but is afraid to hear. 


So, Prairie is creeping herself out and she sees DL in the mirror behind
her, a warrior like athletic looking woman standing a bit too close. 

Prairie turns the brush on her. 

We could dismiss the sexual implications but I suggest we keep them in
mind as we read on.