VLVL Ditzah

[Terrance]

jbor wrote:
> 
> See 198.15-22 for a description of the content of a considerable portion of
> that 24fps footage, and of what Ditzah and Zipi most typically turned their
> technical talents towards, their frustration "at the impossibility of
> getting any of these hippie chicks to do anything on the beat".
> 
> Is Ditzah showing the film ("reel after reel" of it, pp. 197-8) primarily
> for Prairie's benefit, or so that she and DL can reminisce (see 196.4-10 in
> particular)? What evidence is there in the text of Ditzah's supposed
> "warmth" towards Prairie? Seems to me that she and DL become so engrossed in
> their indulgent nostalgia trip that they forget that Prairie's even there.


Yeah, that's what happens. All these folks have compiled "scrapbooks" 
of their glory days. 

bottom of  page 262,  another example

"Ever since she'd computerized and built a database, it had been no
problem, nostalgically now and then, to progress the charts of everyone
in the old 24fps gang, see how their lives were going and, if it was
really critical, to try to get in touch." 

Notice that this nostalgia is computerized and that a file of BV's chart
is also maintained. 

at the bottom 264 DL admits that the computer & film narratives have
been a form of reminiscing.  She advises  Prairie to go to a library and
read up on Nixonian repression and Reagan's current policies or policy
proposals. Ditzah, we gather, hasn't given up her politics or film
making and DL has learned to think outside the ring, historically that
is.