Bernadine Dohrn

[Mark Kohut]

Seconded in spades, no-trump. 

Frenesi is self-condemned. We have read how earlier. For her, there is no excluded middle. She takes on the means of the
fascists, not seeing a non-violent way..........therefore, she is fascist

.........................Guns, like rockets KILL everywhere
in Pynchon's fiction. Killing is BAD. 

Crypto-fascism wins in Vineland embodied most in Frenesi, likeable
as she also is. Part of OBA's achievement.

And the stoners get stoned in the old-fashioned sense by the military-industrial complex which
is also the mob!


 


----- Original Message ----
From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, February 2, 2009 3:49:00 PM
Subject: Re: Bernadine Dohrn

well, I'm probably not going to win a lot of adherents, but for me...

when Frenesi takes up the gun, she begins working for the Man.  In
this case, explicitly: the notion of Brock's like training wheels.
But the general instance is plain enough.  When there's a gun in your
camera bag, the doctrinaire elements (Rex) will use it to martyrize
the attractive, charismatic elements (Weed) and the only winner is the
military-industrial complex.  Even if you're a ninja (DL) your efforts
will often enough hit the wrong target (Takeshi). Being that it's all
a celebration of markets anyway, the only force in society with the
requisite cynicism to thrive in and enjoy it is the Mob (Wayvone).
Luckily the stoners among us (Zoyd) aren't paying attention, and they
are able to retain a shred of decency to pass along to the next
generation.