VL--IV Chap 6, Frenesi, "like a reflex superstition"
Mark Kohut
markekohut at yahoo.com
Sun Jan 4 10:36:05 CST 2009
P. 68, line 3....what pale humid Sun Belt City? San Francisco? San Narcisco? (the same, I know)
line 7 "tranquillized by hopeful rearrangements of the past"....regret--- fantasies of changing the past, so to speak--- as emotional deadening....
"many of them [fantasies] " involving Prairie as a baby...
MK: These are a [concerned] mother's first thoughts in a new home: "like a reflex superstition"---the child...or as the girl she might be.
I think "like a reflex superstition" is a wonderful, resonant line.
Frenesi 'fantasizes' about Prairie--'nervous as a peeper'; Cf. Zoyd fantasizing about Frenesi.
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