VLVL Prairie and DL

[jbor]

on 27/10/03 8:19 AM, jbor wrote:

> The image and the narrative Prairie builds around
> the photo are strongly optimistic. The one dark note is her wondering "who'd
> taken the picture" (115.13).

DL had mentioned 24fps to Prairie (114.1-3), perhaps on the drive to the
retreat. 

> The text then segues into a recount compiled from the other bits and bytes
> of information stored on the computer, information which Prairie is not
> privy to, and which is Pynchon's narrative strategy for presenting a
> detached account of the meeting between DL and Frenesi. It quickly becomes a
> nested narrative in its own right, however, as Pynchon engages the
> characters' perspectives and slides into the temporal setting.

There's nothing (in this chapter, at least) to indicate that DL tells
Prairie the story recounted from 115.23 to 128.27, or that Prairie is even
aware of any of it. Quite the reverse in fact.

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