VLVL Re: Interim (correction)

[jbor]

on 8/2/04 9:30 PM, jbor wrote:

> We are told that Dr Elasmo's office is in "a gutted former public, perhaps
> federal, building" (239) and that Weed quickly becomes "an old bullpen
> regular" (240). 

s/b page nos 227 and 228

I wonder if it's Weed who was being given those Thorazine injections when he
visited Dr Elasmo's (228.20-5). Brock tells Frenesi about what happened to
Weed "in detail often crude enough to make her afraid", and then later,
after she has been rescued by DL, she starts "reciting her adventures"
(260-1) -- but what she's really doing is parroting what Brock told her
happened and claiming it as her own experience rather than Weed's.

If Thorazine is meant to make her lose her memory, then how come she is able
to remember so much?

best

> Lots of mysterious business is being transacted both inside
> and outside of Elasmo's office. Later, after Frenesi has organised Weed's
> set-up, she finds out about Weed's visits to Elasmo from Brock:
> 
> And then he told her, carefully, in detail often crude
> enough to make her afraid, of Weed's visits to downtown
> San Diego for "therapy sessions," Brock called them --
> "Too much math, too many abstract ideas, so we gave him
> some reality, just enough, to counteract that, no worse
> than going to the dentist. Till after a while he could
> begin to see our side. (240)
> 
> Frenesi assumes that this means Weed had been "working for" Brock all along,
> but that's not verified by Brock, and it's not clear whether Weed really
> understands why he keeps being called back to Elasmo's, or why he keeps
> going, or even what's happening to him there (226-8). We never find out for
> sure either.