LArry's Parents & Frenesi's Parents (Talking Shop & Film)

[alice wellintown]

She knew, she  Learned to keep out of the way. Lesson One. (VL.74)


Flash back to Zoyd up on the balcony in Hawaii, feels like Mildred
Pierce's husband, Bert. (VL57)

[The movie/novel has to do with (is about?)  women and working.]


Frenesi appreciates the comparison. 57

Zoyd ain't so stupid.

But Frenesi Was a filmmaker, went to Berkeley, was, as Zoyd puts it,
"Educated Pussy." 41

Van Meter's reply to this is,

"You're blaming yourself for the kind of work she got into?" VL. 42


p. 73

Frenesi, attempting a conversation about her Work with Flash. (Remember,
her folks would sit looking at each other saying nothing about their
WORK and Frenesi Learned to keep out of the way). 74

Frenesi working shifts  in a mall and collecting government snitch
money, living in public housing.  Her daughter, like her mother and
Prairie's grandmother, is
now living on the road, again.

"Tough to admit," she tried once to confide in him,  "that those first
couple college jobs were as good as it's ever gonna get."

She tried to confide in Flash.

But Flash, god bless him, is no more appropriate for the daughter of
Sasha Gates than Zoyd Wheeler.

All he can manage is, "Another pussy routine."

Can't be easy to come home from the Mall and talk to Flash about ... work.

Maybe talk about the Tube or what's on it. Yeah, but the Tube crushes
the characters of film, that have been crushed from the more complex
and experiemental, often more progressive works of fiction or drama
they are lifted from.