VLVL "the famous worms of song" (238)

[jbor]

> But I still maintain that the foreshadowing, for which Frenesi's
> mind- arching back across the years- and shamelessly usurped by
> Pynchon, is for the benefit of the reader, and what is foreshadowed
> is not Weed's obvious death, but, Frenesi's perseverance, and possibly,
> the coming death of a corrupt system of justice.

This doesn't make sense, and it has no basis in the text.

The worms don't foreshadow Frenesi's perseverance, much less that she
"prevail[s]". By 1984 she's racked by guilt and self-doubt, not only because
she abandoned Prairie (68-70), but because she was responsible for Weed's
death:

    [...] But for Frenesi the past was on her case forever,
    the zombie at her back, the enemy no one wanted to see,
    a mouth wide and dark as the grave. (71)

Weed is obviously "the zombie at her back"; the hallucination with the worms
is blast from the past that continues to haunt her. And she's at that court
house in Indiana to try to organise her "stipend check" -- her blood money.

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