VLVL Prairie and DL

[jbor]

>> "whatever story she tells this kid must not, maybe could never, be the
>> story she knew." (101.1-2)

on 18/10/03 12:05 AM, Ghetta Life wrote:

> 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.

Yes. Perhaps not the "truth", but the "truth" as DL knows it. DL's hesitancy
and heightened self-criticism reiterate that of Frenesi and Sasha, and, more
sub-consciously, Zoyd.

Likeable characters all, they're not the idealised personifications of sugar
and spice that some here insist.

best