VLVL Rex Snuvvle

[jbor]

on 16/2/04 9:15 AM, Terrance wrote:

>>>>> , becomes desperate, picks up a gun, kills his brother.
>>>> 
>>>> Rex shoots Weed because Frenesi has convinced him that Weed is working for
>>>> the FBI.
>>> 
>>> Rex picks up a gun and kills his protégé, Weed Atman.
>>> I don't think its the FBI's fault. That's the lame excuse Rex gives in
>>> the fantasy scene with the girl, but I don't buy it.
>> 
>> Who said anything about it being the FBI's fault? Frenesi plants the gun;
>> she's the agent provocateur. And I think you'll find that the speech at the
>> bottom of p. 230 and top of p. 231 is subjunctive-Weed talking, not
>> subjunctive-Rex.
> 
> 
> 232-233, I agree that it's Weed, but no matter. This point is rather
> irrelevant, we  agree that Frenesi delivered the gun to Rex and that Rex
> shot Weed dead with it.

I don't think the point is irrelevant, because it adds to the other hints
that there was more going on than just Frenesi's liaison with Brock, and
Weed's visits to Elasmo. Why does Rex leave his fringe bag behind -- "for
the first time in anyone's memory" (243) -- on that particular day?

I agree that Frenesi willingly takes the gun, willingly puts it into Rex's
bag, and willingly lies that "Weed is an FBI plant" (234). In fact, *she* is
the FBI plant. Frenesi consciously and knowingly acts as an angel of death.
Without her active and deliberate interventions Weed would not have been
shot. The text does not excuse her involvement in the murder in any way.

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