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[jbor]

>>>>> 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. 

Precisely. She's not in the re-education camp, and she's not being held down
by orderlies, injected, given suppositories etc, which is what she describes
to DL at 260-1. She's staying in a motel room and giving evidence before a
grand jury. And, in her testimony, she lies.

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> 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.