VLVL Frenesi's deal with Brock

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>> Frenesi willingly prostitutes
>> herself for Brock to facilitate Weed's assassination (215-6), which is the
>> direct cause of her being employed as a sex agent and informer in order to
>> receive those monthly stipends under the "Witness Protection" scheme (84,
>> 72-3).
> 
> A few questions arise:
> 
> How does Frenesi get into the Witness Protection scheme? And why does she
> agree to it? Why does she marry Flash? In what ways does Frenesi's "work"
> compensate the government for both her stipend and Zoyd's "disability"
> cheque (i.e., her daughter's share of the stipend)? Is she in effect paying
> Zoyd alimony? What were the terms of the "deal" she must have made with
> Brock which resulted in him agreeing to stay away from her?
> 
> Though these *causes* are undocumented the *effects* are presented in the
> text, so it's fair game to ponder how these things might have come about.

Frenesi says to Hector when she realises he is going to bring out a picture
of Prairie:

"We all settled that years ago, don't be doin' this to me now." (346)

She tells him: "[I] honored my side of it, always went where I got sent, and
not once, that was the deal, never did I have to go anywhere near Vineland.
It suited Brock's control-freak desires to keep me away from my child, and
bein' a hard case and cold bitch, why, it suited me too." (349)

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