VLVL Rex and Weed

jbor jbor at bigpond.com
Mon Feb 2 02:02:03 CST 2004


> she still believes that there will be a non-violent resolution-
> the alternative future of the picnic on the hillside with Rex and Weed
> laughing about old times.

This isn't Frenesi's vision, nor is Prairie the girl serving the wine, which
is what the 'Babies of Wackiness' guys say. It's a subjunctive projection:

    Neither one could know how few and fortunate would be any
    who'd be able to meet in years later than these and smile ...
                                                    (232.22)

Unluckily for Rex, the "dreamed hillside ... in some 1980s world of the
future" (246.32.4) isn't to be, because Frenesi sets them both up.

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