Frenesi's Kinks

[Michael Bailey]

Robin Landseadel wrote:
>
> Perhaps, although she seems to want him back just as soon as he's gone.
>

I've been looking for ways to undercut and undermine the case for the
sincerity of her desire
- half asleep (in frog pajamas...?)
- possibly even taunting (just try to do me like you did my Mom)
- relating her Brock-stalgia to Sister Rochelle's story about the
withdrawal of Hell (page 383)
   "sad recitals that asked why the visitors never came anymore, and
if they would again"

but, ya know, I'm not in _that_ strong of a dis-accord with yer point, anyway...
just want to consider everything relevant in the text and my own
soulful reactionz

> In no way do I consider Brock to be on the side of the angels, but he seems
> to have an awareness of the juvenile nature of the revolutionary wanna-bee's
> of 24fps.

text agrees, of course
"these people had known their children, after all, perfectly." (239)
- "these people" being of course They who set loose the hounds like Vond...
They being behind the strategery, whereas Brock is more of a tactician...
---  but Vond has his own particular spin on the knowledge,

1) whereas...
Pynchon has referred to Lombroso, which is "a new preterition and
election" (as the Adenoid creates the new p&e in GR, and the
possession of mill-wheel-driveable streams creates the new p&e in M&D)
isn't it?
2) thereby
...that modifies the earlier mention, on page 269, of "...the deep -
if he'd allowed himself to feel it, the sometimes touching - need only
to stay children forever, safe..."

--- his Lombrosan understanding of them as preterite obviates the
necessity of any compassion --- he doesn't _allow_ himself to feel any
sympathy, just as he doesn't _allow_ himself to let amusement overtake
him, preferring nausea (278)
--- he's fucked and pitiable in his own way

> Yes, Brock's the bad guy, but he's also one character in the book with some
> minimal awareness of how all these "freaks" are, underneath it all,
>  consumers to the bone, passive absorbers of the fantasies provided by the
> Tube.
>

but we are all passive consumers of God's goodness.  The most
industrious person in the world can still only really be grateful for
bounties received.  Medieval as this homily may sound...

-- 
 - "Be groovy or B movie" - the old 24fps signoff