VLVL2 Brock in Love

[Bandwraith at aol.com]

Things just haven't been the same since they started naming 
storms after boys, know what I mean? I'm not sure when that 
began, or if it makes Pynchon retro, but I'm really glad that the 
storm in OC is described in such feminine terms.

The real emotion is inside the motel room, however. (This will
have to serve as foreplay, because I'm busy at the moment, but...) 
I think Pynchon really brings out Frenesi's emotional fragility and 
genuine tenderness toward the man she is aching to surrender to in 
this scene. Likewise, for all his inability to admit his feelings, Brock 
is clearly beyond control with respect to his need for Frenesi, and has 
been deeply wounded by her physical attraction for Weed. Brock is 
unable to get beyond his pain, mainly because he does not have the 
resources to admit it to himself, or Frenesi, and seems intractably 
drawn into the anteroom of his own annihilation by choosing instead 
to deal with his helplessness and pain by denial and projection. 

Frenesi is the far stronger of the two, much more in touch with her feelings, 
and, of course, this is what will allow for her redemption for the mistake 
she makes, hoping she can turn Vond into a caring human being by her love.

respectfully