VLVL "free love" and Prairie

[jbor]

I think there's also an angle on the promiscuity of Frenesi (and Weed, and
the '60s youth in general) making it easier for infiltrations and
exploitations to occur.

It's easy to forget about Prairie, and how she might be responding to the
revelations of infidelity and betrayal she's finding out about, but she's
the moral centre or sounding board of the text, and it's important earlier
that we find out that she's in a stable, monogamous relationship with
Isaiah. I think part of her ultimate rejection of her parents' generation
and ideology might be as much due to the messiness and hurt caused as a
result of betrayals on a personal and sexual level, as on the political one.

The other point to make is that Prairie is the grand-daughter and great
grand-daughter of labour organisers, but she *hasn't* automatically
inherited some IWW mentality which has been passed on like DNA from her
maternal forebears. I don't really think Frenesi has either, or that the
political affiliations in the late '30s and '50s (Sasha's) are directly
descended from those of the first couple of decades of the century (Jess and
Eula's).

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> Frenesi has Flash and
> Zoyd and more Brock along with  a string of clients on deck.