VLVL2 - Take me anyplace you want

[Toby G Levy]

The oft quoted statement of Prarie at the end of the novel in which she
returns to the site of her confrontation with Brock Vond, seems to me to
be NOT a message of submission, but a test of her own bravery.  She
thinks "He had left too suddenly. There should have been more."  She
wants MORE confrontation, more oppostion, a chance to show how tough she
is in the face of unspeakable power and evil.  Pynchon closes the novel
with a display of her bravery.  He has kindly disposed of the villain a
few pages back so that her bravery will not have to be consumated with
the terrible fate that Vond clearly has in store for her.  Vond's
intentions were to annihilate all those associated with Frenesi.  Why?
Because he believed he had the power to do so.  Evil needs no other
reason.

Toby

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