VL--IV, p. 60 All You Need is Love

Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Fri Jan 2 06:29:14 CST 2009


p.60 Zoyd's (s)ex fantasy of Frenesi presented as astral projection. A right on metaphor (if you've ever fantasized obsessively), I think the psychologists would say. Zoyd is also a "ghostly peeper", linked to ghosts and simulacra in Vineland with this act. As psychologists will also tell you, keeping the fantasy going keeps it alive and, of course, is "unhealthy". I think there may be more than just a pun involved with the 'sex' 'ex' play on a letter. Most sex fantasies, I think it is fair to say, involve people with whom we have not (yet, maybe) had sex and involve "outfits, accessories and scenarios" as P writes. Beyond that "can't do it enough" time of lust/love in most relationships, with an ex of some time (in this case) it shows an obsessive "love", not just a maybe-unrealizable fantasy.
Zoyd, a 'make love not war' 60s hippie turned Humbert Humbert-like obsesive? P on love power getting stuck there? Or just that "love is strange"?--Ian & Sylvania


      




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