VLVL Thorazine
jbor
jbor at bigpond.com
Wed Feb 11 14:42:58 CST 2004
Terrance:
>>> I may have deleted some of this thread without reading it. Maybe I'm
>>> missing something, but there is some evidence that Brock is drugging
>>> Frenesi (242.26-34).
>>
>> It's possible -- but left indeterminate like much else in this section. It's
>> clear that she's not in the re-education camp while she's testifying before
>> the grand jury, and the insinuation seems to be that she is taking the drugs
>> volitionally (eg. "breakfast having been two or three time-bomb
>> tranquilizers and some instant coffee"). The story she tells DL (260-1)
>> doesn't match up with this episode -- the time, place and circumstances are
>> totally different.
>
> So how do you account for the Reveille? VL.242.30
Small "r" reveille, as in wake-up call. How do you account for the "motel
sheets" (242.30), and the fact that it takes place in "a city, days distant"
(242.14)?
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