VLVL College of the Surf and PR3

jbor jbor at bigpond.com
Fri Jan 23 23:53:26 CST 2004


Terrance:
> VL.119 DL is born right after the war
> VL.117 DL meets Frenesi at Berkeley, they are both 22, it is late-67.

Why "late" 1967? Any evidence? (And, you're welcome, by the way.) Why not
spring, or summer? Is there a particular demonstration in 1967 which fits
the description in the text of the "fighting on the hill" (116-7)?
 
> VL.135 DL listens to The Doors Strange Days (1975)

p. 133, when she is fleeing California and heading towards Ohio.

> VL.147  it's 1978 in Japan.
> VL.155  DL is a thirty-year-old hardcase

Sister Rochelle is being ironic in addressing DL as "Thirty-year-old,
hardcase, cold and beautiful child". She's chiding her. Her point is that
DL's no longer a child; she's not documenting DL's exact age.

> Is she 30 or 33?

She's 33.

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