VL-IV: Chap7- Floozy with an Uzi

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Good point that DL is rebelling against her upbringing the way Frenesi is.  Each chooses to retain some of the trappings of that upbringing, but in a distorted version.  Frenesi is still part of the preterite, like her parents, but she answers to The Elect instead of fighting them.  DL is as much of a fighter as her dad, but she's a lefty-feminist, martial arts-oriented, free-spirited fighter.  

Laura

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>From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>

>DL the character herself, I think, reflects auctorial choices having
>to do with contrast and complementarity to Frenesi.
>The photogenic character requires protection like a gem requires a setting;
>(I'd argue that this duality is almost a development of the bicameral
>Pynchonian world, upper and lower rooms, refined and coarse.)
>For F to receive this protection from DL makes sense during the 60s scenes.
>...for DL to choose to protect 24fps reflects DLs rebellion against
>her military father...
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>The removal of F from 24fps basically shatters the collective, almost
>as if she was the "charismatic leader"
>The implications of F being the de facto charismatic leader of the
>roving counter-media,
>in contradistinction to the doomed and futile PR3, with Weed out in front,
>and the survival of 24fps product which would be a POV, or in physical
>terms all that footage.
>Rich with meaning, Vineland is.
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