VL--IV p. 71 Defining moment---and in the book too!, imho

[Mark Kohut]

To continue:

"here was a world of simplicity and certainty no acidhead, no revolutionary anarchist would ever find, a world
based on the one and zero of life and death. Minimal, beautiful. the patterns of lives and deaths."

Frenesi embraces the binary that Pynchon so despises, that shows where she gave up her full humanity.
That is Pynchon's way of "saying' that the fully-human is NOT ever so simple....is always full of uncertainty
and more. --An awareness of history, the dead, an imagined future for the not-yet-born......

To "live in the moment" as Frenesi decides is to "rebel' against our human connection with others. Feeling no connection,
betrayal is just another word for 'an action' that fills a moment.



----- Original Message ----
From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 4, 2009 4:23:28 PM
Subject: VL--IV p. 71 Defining moment---and in the book too!, imho

Pynchon gives Frenesi her own self-defining moment: Comment.


p. 71 "Here's my Woodstock, etc". great riffing..."she [Frenesi] understood her particular servitude as the freedom, granted to a few, to act outside warrants and charters, to ignore history and the dead, to imagine no future, no yet-to-be-born, to be able to go on defining moments only, purely, by the action that filled them....." 

Cf. within TRPs works....[Hint; read just beyond where I stopped]