VLVL The Pisk Sisters--JAPs?

[Terrance]

davemarc wrote:
> 
> From: Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
> 
> > How many poor women were in college then? The Mouth Sisters
> > were never poor and they aren't now.
> 
> Were they in college? On page 194, the narrator says, "Back then they had
> roved the country together in a loose low-visibility convoy of older midsize
> sedans, pickups with and without camper shells, an Econoline van for
> equipment, and a dinged and chromeless but nonetheless kick-ass Sting
> Ray...."

They were. I'm not sure if they are still matriculated  at this point,
but if they are no longer in college they haven't taken that giant step
out of "the land of make-believe" (the term employed by the boisterous
Pisk sisters when they split the scene and head up to Oregon to a bomb
making commune) because they are still living and working in and around
Berkeley (San Pablo). 


> 
> As for the question of their poor, I don't believe anyone has claimed that
> they're from a poor background. I've merely been resisting characterizing
> them as "privileged" at this point in the book, especially based on the
> "evidence" being offered. Terrance writes "they were probably the daughters
> of the 'true Middle class' or privileged college professionals." I certainly
> am open to their being somewhere in the middle class, but I don't simple
> associate middle class status with "true privileged status." As for their
> being daughters of "privileged college professionals" (as Terrance writes),
> that's not in the passages discussed to this point as far as I can see. I'm
> open to more evidence, and I understand that we may differ even in the
> absence of any additional evidence.

We are speculating. We don't, as far as I know, have much more to go on.
Maybe we will turn something up later.