VLVL characters (was Re: Which side is he on?

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> I think Pynchon presents Frenesi in a completely reprehensible manner.
> There is nothing good about her.  

There is plenty good about her. Why do her Mother and her Father love
her? Why does DL love her? The postpartum depression makes her a very
sympathetic character. After all, this woman is the daughter of long
line of females struggling to have a creative impact on the patriarch's
war-economy-body-politic and she gets pregnant after falling in love
with a man in uniform and taking refuge from his abuse of power with a
hippy bum. She did something very bad, but is there nothing good about
her? Oh there is plenty of good in Frenesi. She's beautiful, defiant,
funny, witty, an artist.  



However, P's characters simply don't stay put in one frame. Frenesi is
nothing good in the allegorical frame. In the allegorical frame Brock
Vond is evil.  In the human frame, they are human, good and bad like all
of us. The key to understanding the allegorical frame (thus far)  is the
encounter between Ortho Bob Dulang and Takeshi. 

Again, we need to know what a Thanatoid is and what KA is. What's
happening in terms of DL's atonement, Bob's Guilt/Death formula? 

Characters? How about Vato, Blood,  "Vietnamese Bitch"?