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

[Mark Kohut]

As tantalizing as ...sudoko, say....to make all these flashes of separate insight all add up....but

I mjust read again.

--- On Sat, 2/27/10, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
> Subject: LArry's Parents & Frenesi's Parents (Talking Shop & Film)
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010, 9:45 AM
> 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.
>