VLVL Rex, DL and Frenesi

[Terrance]

> 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)

Right, but the entire scene is kinda subjunctive ( Frenesi *wanted*  to
cry, DL *might've* answered her). I think one of the points here is that
they can't communicate and they can't mend their relationship because
they can't forgive. Same old story, Rex and Weed can't communicate. Jinx
and Frenesi and Rex can't get on Weed's math wavelength. 


> 
> 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.

Agreed. 


> 
> 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.


It seems Rex, in giving up his car, gives up sex too. He's trying real
hard to understand his darker bothers and to repudiate the White
Christian Capitalists Democracy that nurtured him. His Guilty White
Marxist Abnegation is subjected to scathing satire.