VLVL2 (4) Off-stage

[Michael Joseph]

> Ch3: Hector introduces Frenesi and offers Zoyd a role as player in his
> scheme. Zoyd resists but the introduction of Frenesi opens up the text,
> in Ch4, to the flashbacks that are informative, certainly, but also
> intrusive. By the end of Ch4 there is just no room for Zoyd. Prairie
> (the 'next generation') will become the key to history.
>

"Key to history?" Can you explain that a little, Paul? Am I rightly
connecting what you've written about history here to this statement to
infer that Prairie symbolizes a potential synthesis of personal time and
historical time?


Michael