VL-IV Who was saved?

[bandwraith at aol.com]

Yes, and I'm wondering if Zoyd has any clue
about Frenesi's rather sordid past by the time of
their wedding, thinking he's going to save her
from all that with his love? Re: his conversation
to that effect with Van Meter.


-----Original Message---------------------------------------
From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:08 am
Subject: Re: VL-IV Who was saved?


it IS obvious, and yet...as Hector mentioned, who WAS saved?  Love
might be like a life-vest, but it has to be in stock, in working
order, tossed, caught, deployed...

also, Zoyd-then is present in the passage addressing Frenesi and
trying as he speaks to mentally save a picture that Zoyd-now, also
present, is trying to recapture and refresh  (no wedding photographer
at the hippie wedding?) - but the point that I'm backing away from is
receding further as I try to put it in words, fracturing into
fragments
a) nature of memory
b) the way that life overruns the boundaries of the formalities - it's
their wedding, but the moment dripping with emotion isn't the vows,
it's this other question
c) or maybe it's just him and people like him whose (messy) lives slop
over the borders of lawfulness?
d) or the reason he selects this memory is in response to Hector's
question (like a development in a well made novel)