VLVL Thorazine

[Terrance]

jbor wrote:
> 
> 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)?

Well that's easy enough, she's in a hotel. She staying in a hotel with
Brock. 
Brock is blowing a bugle or the hotel desk is ringing the phone, but the
word reveille rings a few bells in my mind. It's got to do with the way
Pynchon mixes up spaces and times. He tends to do this with altered-mind
internal character narrative. In this example Frenesi is the drugged-up
mind. The reveille reminds us that Brock Visited Frenesi at his Campus
at Reveille.