VLVL Prairie and DL

[jbor]

>> 113-4. Not sure. Pynchon's reference to Frenesi's "legal history with the
>> DMV, letterhead memoranda" recalls a couple of the items which eager critics
>> have acquired to try and find out more about Pynchon's own personal life.

on 28/10/03 1:15 PM, Terrance wrote:
 
> At one point Prairie thinks that it's kinda like a scrapbook that
> someone's eccentric hippie uncle might keep, but she discovers that its
> more than a mere scrapbook. Is it an obsession? Whose? Kinda like
> Hector's obsession with Frenesi and film? Is it an addiction? When  DL
> was younger she was in it for the action, the ass kicking, kinda like
> her father ... she drank ... took drugs ... was street wise ... Maybe
> The Hunchback can tell us more.

I don't think that DL has been amassing the computer file on Frenesi because
she seems genuinely shocked when she first meets Prairie (100.10), so I
think it's safe to assume that she hasn't been keeping tabs on Frenesi "over
the years". After Prairie logs off the info in the computer which becomes
the narrative pertains to "the two women ... of this photo" (115.24-6), and
we end up finding out more about DL than we do about Frenesi anyway. It's
too early for the Internet. Dunno ... Sister Rochelle certainly seems to
know that the info on Frenesi is there ... what "Hunchback"?

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