VLVL(12) pgs 239- 246

[Michael Bailey]

Bekah wrote:
> This is part two of a large chunk in section 12 dealing with 1969.

the 40-year-old hippie sez: "I ain't been high since the pot o' 69"
maybe the hotel they meet in is the Hotel California...

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> Frenesi wore ... and round wire-rims with ND-1 filters for lenses.
> http://www.eyeglasseswarehouse.com/20th-century-eyeglasses.html
> Neutral Density filters.   I think these are for cameras, they darken things
> a bit so you can take photos at a  faster (?) speed.  (but maybe that's
> exactly what Frenesi wants?)  (heh)    Eyeglass lenses which darken are
> usually called "photo-grey."

at the time she may have jury-rigged them from their own photo shop,
being an avant sort of person and probably just using them as
sunglasses.  (speculation)

But there's enough brouhaha from the various characters as to the
effect of her baby blues and also the number of passes she receives
suggests she doesn't actually "wear glasses"...

(Vond, though, doesn't give her the satisfaction she desires and
expects when she flashes 'em at  him though - reminding this lowbrow
movie fan of the heroine in Saving Silverman who meets up with the
Steve Zahn character who gives her the tough love she craves...in
other words, perhaps F & B are in some ways a good match...or at least
an interesting change of pace for her)

(I'm prone to seeing Vineland as a comedy, of course...ymmv)

> "Neither (Vond nor Frenesi) had offered the other anything liquid - it was
> among the least of all the civilities allowed to lapse throughout Brock's
> profession as the Nixonian Reaction continued to penetrate and compromise

due diligence historical reference-wise compels me to bring in the
French Revolution and the Thermidorian Reaction...where The People did
in fact mobilize and get rid of the ruling classes.  Good riddance,
but as Tom Paine argued, they really shouldn'a chopped the poor
bugger's head off.  Made other ruling classes a lot more wary...
a-and the French Revolution did in fact enact some cool changes

(which it was time for: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xslO6Qi_kGQ )

such as new, non mythological names for the months
Thermidorian Reaction being an example of such
a-and I think the metric system....
if only they could have sidestepped Napoleon, the vicious little fuck....
---- anyway, if we're talking about a real revolution, those Frenchies
did it all a long time ago


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