VL--IV Chap 6, Frenesi, "like a reflex superstition"

[Mark Kohut]

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.