Frenesi's Kinks

Robin Landseadel robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Fri Mar 13 13:54:56 CDT 2009


On Mar 13, 2009, at 11:32 AM, Paul Mackin wrote:

> I'm curious as to whether p-listers credit with some kind of  
> validity Brock's insights about his young antagonists.

I'm working on that one, but the short answer is: Yes.

Brock has some insight into the hustle:

	Brock Yond's genius was to have seen in the activities of the
	sixties left not threats to order but unacknowledged desires for
	it. While the Tube was proclaiming youth revolution against
	parents of all kinds and most viewers were accepting this story,
	Brock saw the deep - if he'd allowed himself to feel it, the
	sometimes touching - need only to stay children forever, safe
	inside some extended national Family.
	Vineland, page 269



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