VLVL2 Vineland & V. WAS re Re: Shutting down New York

[Terrance]

 Look at what happens to
> Brock Vond, for heaven's sake, and compare that to the
> fate Pynchon has created for Frenesi and Zoyd and
> Prairie.

Prairie wants to go with Brock. 
Frenesi might be better off if she were going with Brock. 
Zoyd hasn't learned a thing and is still looking for Brock. 

Brock Vond's program is cut by Reagan. He ends up in a cartoon with Vato
and Blood and is taken into the Indian Underworld where he belongs. 

Like Blicero in GR, Brock is both Human and more-than-human (Death). In
satire, human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit.
So, as a human, Brock Vond is satirized like all the other members of
the sick crew. For example, like Moody (DL's father) his vices are made
public by his co-workers. But his being taken into the underworld where
his bones will be removed is not satire, it's allegory.