VL--IV misc. p 70-71

[Michael Bailey]

Mark quoth:

>
>            "Betray someone you'd been to bed with"....."had that specialist's code".....marked now for life, "the zombie at her back". her betrayal like another of the living dead.
>  Frenesi grew up with blacklist/betrayal talk in her daily life. She became what she heard about--Psychologists write of labile [free and easy, so to speak] character structures which move into what they fear; she became what her parents resisted. OR another turn in the wheel of history from committed radicalism in one generation to informant the next? Or both, of course.
>

Is this a safe statement?
in Vineland ideology is deprecated in favor of personal experience.

It's not that F is converted to a loyal Republican, it's that she
finds a place within Cointelpro to express her nature and find that
thrill.
Just as within the antiwar protest movement she found a place to
utilize her filmic talents.

It's not that Z believes abstractly in, well, anything...he just
registers experiences as pleasant and seeks to repeat and intensify
them...including his love