VLVL Rex Snuvvle

[jbor]

There's no conclusive textual support for any of the surmises about Rex
working for the FBI or DOJ or other authorities, of course. It's just as
likely that, like the Pisks, he has come from a privileged background which
allowed him to save up and buy the Porsche and live at the apartment at Las
Nalgas Beach. There are indeed hints that Rex is collaborating with someone
(leaving the bag behind; the flat tires, phone calls and letters), but
nothing is confirmed. As I've said, the uncertainty which we as readers
experience in regard to who is betraying whom corresponds to the paranoia of
the times: in part, it's paranoia which is deliberately nurtured by the feds
(232-3), but it's also legitimate paranoia because there are infiltrators
like Frenesi in the middle of everything.

I tend to think that Rex is sincere when he is talking with Elliot X
(230-1), and again after Frenesi tells him that "Weed is an FBI plant":

       "They're killing us, man," Rex earnestly face to face, "locking
    us in those federal slams, regular and mental, packing us away, this
    is who he's been working for all the time. Pretending. Reporting back
    on us?" (235)

If the facts as we know them were presented to an impartial judge and jury
then Rex, Frenesi and Brock would be charged and sentenced. Rex would
probably receive the harshest sentence, but Frenesi and Brock would be found
guilty of conspiracy and perverting the course of justice at least, and
their sentences wouldn't be much lighter. Morally, I think it's clear that
Frenesi is the one most culpable for what happens.

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