VLVL Frenesi and Brock

[jbor]

> On p. 239, we zoom in to Mr. Vond and Ms. Gates in a clifftop suite,
> apparently still in California, but with an un-Californian, subtropical
> light streaming in through half moon windows.  As we'll see in later pages
> of this same chapter, this narration is a flashback mediated by DL, and
> others, for Prairie's point of view.  In a setting of remembrance, the
> opening of this scene establishes a slight warping alerting us to less than
> perfect reliability of the narration since it is mediated by DL's memory
> within Prairie's viewpoint.

I don't think this is necessarily the case. How would DL even know about
this meeting? I think that, in terms of narrative agency, we have long since
shifted away from the conversations and film-viewing at Ditzah's. Pynchon
uses a process of narrative sleight-of-hand that allows us to zoom in on
other events (cf. the way the narration zooms inside the computer system to
provide more information about the meeting between DL and Frenesi *after*
Prairie has gone to bed 115.23).

I think the rendezvous and exchange is supposed to represent an accurate
account of this meeting between Brock and Frenesi. I guess it could be what
Prairie or DL imagine might have taken place, though there's nothing in the
text to establish this, but as readers we're offset from DL's and Prairie's
point of view.

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