VLVL palimpsest & incest
Terrance
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Wed Sep 24 11:17:12 CDT 2003
VL.68
This is P at his palimpsest best, the circular saws, the hammers, the
music out of truck radios, the Home, between Shifts ... written over
page 3 ... saws and truck radios ...
as Fr, now, entertains images of her daughter Pr looking like a young Fr
in in the embrace of some beach bum.
Like, Zoyd?
Pr wants to go camping with her boyfriend.
She ends up camping with Zoyd.
Zoyd, as his daughter heads out to live on the road (in the steps of her
mother's side) can't bring himself to embrace his kid after the jail
bait remark.
A very old plot and theme here, Incest ... Oedipus ... are you my
mother? my father? are you your mother? Quest for identity.
Pynchon will put Pr the rat in the Maze (the mall) for yet another
perspective on this.
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