VLVL Frenesi/"happy ending"?

[Otto]

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From: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 10:13 AM
Subject: VLVL Frenesi/"happy ending"?
>
> It's noteworthy that Prairie tells Zoyd that meeting Frenesi was "like
> meeting a celebrity" (375) which, as well as referring to the mediated
> relationship she has had with her -- to Prairie, Frenesi "had been a girl
> in a movie" (367) -- intimates that maybe Frenesi will end up doing
> Hector's big anti-drug movie after all. Symbolically-speaking,
> Hector and Frenesi's dance (350) seems to have sealed a contract
> of some sort.
>
> best
>

Nice idea with some logic in it.

It's also noteworthy that Prairie seemed to have "met" both of her parents
as kind of celebreties, although through a totally different approach. Zoyd
in his annual jump and Frenesi in some kind of overdose at the
24fps-archives.

We're not told exactly how often Zoyd has "performed" his jump already, but
it is likely that Prairie has seen her dad on tv from quite an early age on.
Whatever this does to a young psyche. She's obviously an expert for his
jump:

"Lookin' good, Dad." (15.4)

"Give you a nine point five, Dad, your personal best (...)." (15.28)

While there's surely a lot of irony in the description of the "experts"
discussing Zoyd's de- or transfenestration technics and in the observation
of the increasing video-quality through the years I'm not sure how much
irony (if any at all) is in Prairie's remarks.

Otto