VLVL Rex, DL and Frenesi

[jbor]

Terrance:

> Rex's sexuality is curious, a
> purse, a car named Bruno. Like DL, I forger what she named her car, his
> sexual relations with Frenesi are subjunctive.

I think it's clear that Frenesi and DL have been sexually involved, and not
just as a one-off:

    "[...] DL . . . please . . .  you know what happens when my
    pussy's runnin' the show, you saw me do stuff he'll *never*
    see," and DL, not as angry by then, might've answered, "I
    *made* you do stuff, bitch," and Frenesi would have felt a
    bodylong twinge of clear desire for her already ex-partner,
    a preview of delicious trouble . . . for DL's body, whose
    rangy sweetness she loved [...] (260)

I think it's also clear that Frenesi had been sleeping with the girl in the
re-education camp, and that DL knows it (254).

Frenesi uses her sexuality as much as she is used by it, I think, and though
her ploy doesn't always succeed (as with DL here, and with Brock), still she
tries it on with both of them too. Frenesi lies through her teeth to DL
after the rescue (259-261), but DL's "phony-baloney sensors" are "on full
alert" (251). There's real poignancy in that DL realises that Frenesi has
betrayed *her* as much as, or more than, anyone else, and that she is forced
to abandon the woman she loves, and this episode with Frenesi goes a long
way to explaining why DL goes off the rails again (Ralph, Ohio, Japan,
Takeshi etc), and why she is somewhat ambivalent towards Prairie.

Rex I don't think has sex with -- or a sexual attraction towards -- anyone
or anything except his car, which he had named Bruno (230). (The renaming of
the Porsche -- "it had been redesignated UHURU" 231 -- by the BAAD bruthas
is significant, too.) Rex's jealousy of Frenesi and his possessiveness
towards Weed are more to do with Weed's status as a charismatic and leader.

DL calls her car Felicia (134), by the way.

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