Possible Interpretation of the title Vineland

[Mark Kohut]

This is great stuff, thanks Joseph and will only say Yes to frenzy and Yes
to Free "N Easy and I see them more equally than you as resonances but that
is trivial...

On Tue, Feb 3, 2026 at 1:57 AM J Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> Likely that Pynchon considered Free and Easy one way the name might be
> turned, though not certain that I know about. . But the name is from a
> Spanish word meaning Frenzy that was popularized as a jazz song  about a
> Woman of that name by a Mexican singer and later played as an instrumental
>  Clarinet piece by Artie Shaw( The basis of Frenesi’s naming by Sasha( pg
> 75)   It is pronounced the way friend is pronounced with the accent on the
> first syllable It would not have been pronounced  like Free & easy, but
> more like Hennesy, the cognac. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7ldf9koTSM.
> : a version by Linda Ronstadt. There is certainly some sense of frenzy in
> her life, perhaps less sense of free and easy.
>
> On Feb 1, 2026, at 9:04 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Not her name, her character in the fiction....Plath's "Every Woman adores
> a Fascist/ the boot in the face/the brute, brute heart" ....and her role in
> the novel...
>
> Her name is Free 'N-Easy.....
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