VLVL Prairie and DL

[Terrance]

> 
> 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.

She's the Rocket with a capital R

And we know she dreams ... and in Pynchon's fictional worlds dreams are
no longer private (Mondaugen)  or safe (The Secret Integration). 

Digression: 

Prairie is in some deep shit here. She says good night to a machine.
That's not a good thing in a Pynchon novel.  And the machine says, good
night to her ... "and may your sleep be in every way untroubled." VL.115
see the end of TSI 

So who narrates this part of the story? 

Well, it's a Pynchon trick, dream mixed with radio (TSI) zero & one
mixed with dream here and machine data or  spherics (V.), or cartoons
(old man in CL49) or the Franz's movie dreams (GR)  or the guy who ties
a balloon over his head in V. and watches TV nodding in and out of dream
(V.) or Mason after falling off a horse or being haunted by the
mysterious and never heard Indian language  ...  or and so on. 

Digression over

Deep shit here ... Frenesi dreamed of a mysterious people's oneness ....
page 117 










> 
> >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.

Which ones? I'll give you the page numbers if you ask. 

T