VLVL Pynchon's filtered narration

[Dave Monroe]

At the risk of, well, whatever ...

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> There's not a whole lot of substance to the
> observations beforehand either;

Concise and on target.  Frenesi, that is ...

> like the airport picket line scene the passage puts
> Frenesi's character on display more than anything,
> the way she is trying to "cast" herself here,
> trying to play herself as the victim rather than the
> perp. The comment about _TV Guide_ is the crowning
> exaggeration in her hypocritical, and hypocritically
> self-righteous, litany.

Doesn't make any of it less accurate ...
 
> Note also that her knee-jerk anti-cop show,
> anti-Hector fake polemic ...

There's this strange idea here that, if one keeps
repeating something over and over and over again, it
somehow magically becomes true.  Rather, at best, it
takes on the function of "truth," "reality," what have
you.  This is what some call "ideology."  See also,
e.g., Geo. Orwell, 1984.  But this is als an effect of
the media, say, teevee, certain ideologemes thereof
Frenesi nicely recognizes in the para. in question ...

> ... follows on directly from Hector's reminder of
> how "she's an honest soldier ... and we been out on
> so many of the same type calls over the years".

Now THERE'S a cliche-free cop (show) line ...

> And she does end up doing Hector "the honor" and
> dancing to his tune, after all.

As she has done before.  Perfect, or quite fully
self-critical, Frenesi ain't, certainly not here.  She
is perhaps all-too-easily co-opted, indeed.  Over and
over.  Doesn't mean she can't at least get a decent
glimpse of What's Going On from time to time.  I am
never quite sure just what, or whom, is being argued
with here ...


	
		
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