VLVL Frenesi/"happy ending"?

[jbor]

otto
>> 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.

> 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.

Yes, although the difference is that she has never met Frenesi in person,
whereas she's lived with Zoyd all her life. But yes, there's probably some
logic to this.

> 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.

I think she's making fun of him, but affectionately.

best