VLVL Prairie and DL

[Ghetta Life]

>From: Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
>
>The characters define each other: master and slave / slave and master.

This is the case with every character Pynchon ever writes about.  It is the 
nature of reality as he see it.

>DL is as hung up on Frenesi as are Zoyd, Brock Vond, Hector ...so on. Of 
>course, all these obsessed '60s people looking for Frenesi are made to look 
>obsessed next to Prairie's Quest. Her quest springs from something young 
>and healthy and their quests are old, tired, sick, decadent.

What is it that makes these '60s people's interest in Frenesi decadent?  Why 
would "hersory" (a really bad pun) be so valuable and important, but 
negatively so by anyone but Prarie?   What IS Frenesi?  Is she some ideal 
(like "V" the Virgin/Dynamo)? We know she's a traitor and a 
daughter&husband-deserter.  We know she a whore for hire by the government.

>The entire Sisterhood thing strikes me as far more insidious than some run 
>down self-help resort. I don't agree that the satire here is gentle. It's 
>harsh. Prairie can deal with it like she can deal with the trees, she's a 
>California kid and she digs vegetation.
>
>Sister Rochelle and DL are not able to take control of Prairie. And that's 
>what they want to do. They want to bring her inside the daisy chain, into 
>the business, and put her to WORK for them.
>
>As you have noticed, the young girl is very smart, together, not in need of 
>a master, not oppressed by the Patriarchs in her life ... and not looking 
>for enlightenment. She's simply looking for her Mother.
>[...]
>Prairie may not be able to see Sister R in the shadows, but she sees the 
>middle class attitude, the business coffee cup, hears the suppressed 
>country accent, the cigarettes and alcohol  in the voice box straining. 
>Sister Rochelle is another fake, a phony.
>
>Prairie ain't goin for it (112).
>
>And they know it.

Of course if all you say above is true, then the DL/Takeshi parnership is 
also corrupt.  I don't see any of your characterization of the above 
characters in the book.

Ghetta

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