Frenesi

[Paul Mackin]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <kelber at mindspring.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 1:20 PM
Subject: Frenesi


> Not a whole lot of room for Frenesi to develop her nurturing side. 
> Frenesi's rejection of her baby, primarily out of allegiance to the 
> child-loathing Vond, seems out of step with the basic tenets of fascism: 
> the Nazi-endorsed "kinder, kuche, kirche" slogan, payments to young 
> couples who produced lots of babies, etc.  Fascism wants to regulate 
> childbirth, paying women to have or not have kids, if need be.

I would probably say that inner fascism (assuming there is such a thing) 
comes under the category of irrational desire.

Nazism, an externalized fascism,  had to be practical and rational. Needed 
to plan  for the future.

But it would be highly unlikely that Frenesi worked on pure irrational 
instinct.

A woman would be in pretty precarious position in life if she didn't 
recognize the rational need to keep her man from going off the track.

I'm just talking possibilities, not definitive answers.

P.




Frenesi's inner fascist would come under the category of desire (nornally 
labelled irrational).


>
> Vond prefers Frenesi to be a whore rather than a mother, even the mother 
> of his own children.  That seems a little odd if his emotional intention 
> is to own and colonize her.
>
> Laura
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com>
>
>
>>Yes, we have to assume that Frenesi has a nurturing side too, in addition 
>>to
>>her inner fascist.
>>
>>P.
>