VLVL (6) Sasha

[jbor]

on 28/9/03 7:22 AM, Terrance wrote:

> Yeah, and Sasha is also connected to Zoyd when she tells the story about
> how she got the canary gig. After this job, Sasha gets into organizing
> again. It's in her blood. Her mother, recall, can remember being shot at
> by Pinkertons better than she can remember the birth of Sasha. No wonder
> Frenesi got depressed after P's birth. Poor thing. And, just as Sasha
> complains that she didn't get any help from her sisters when the war
> changed everything,

Frenesi recalls Sasha defending the way she had sold out on her own ideals
during WWII (75.12-16), and this provides the transition for the short
vignettes of Sasha's and Eula's backgrounds. From being involved with "the
anticonscription movement at Berkeley" (77.15) Sasha began to undergo a
change of heart when the war actually began (77.22), and finally ended up
marrying a soldier boy, "Electrician's Mate Third Class Hubbell Gates".

best


> we should not overlook the fact that Frenesi's {the
> truly tragic figure in this novel about women and work ;--) } sisters
> weren't much help either; (Rich mentioned Esther's abortion), advice
> included putting LSD in the baby formula, raising the child on Trotsky.