bog blog (on a frog on a log)

 Quick post. Why not. Let's skip the formalities.  I know in class we talked about how a lot of the information of this novel is sourced from the something (Warren???) files which investigated Lee's life before y'know, being presumed to have shot the president and then shot dead. A lot of this information, as we covered in class, had come from his mom. Who just sort of rambled at the interviewer until eventually she had to stop talking. His mom kinda comes off as a little crazy, with long tangents and sprees about random things. We get that sense in the book too, when she speaks to her son. Solid. DeLilo is getting her character from her interview, then putting that into the book. But I don't think that's where the parallels stop.  You see, a lot of what we know about Lee comes from his mom's interview. His life is retold by her. He never got a chance to elaborate on his life, because, he is dead. That's sort of what happens when you die. It would be a littl...

 Hi all, as you all know we're reading Kindred this time. Or well, we finished it. Regardless, let's talk about Dana. More specifically, her relationships, and how she becomes unhealthily depend on them.  I'd like to start off with her relationship with Kevin. While this is the milder one of the two relationships I'd like to talk about today- being that messing it up doesn't result in something akin to death/severe harm to self- it still has huge impacts on the story. Now, while I can't speak about how interracial relationships with older men tended to go in 1976- I can say that their relationship has somewhat given me a weird vibe. More so towards the middle of the book. (By the end the weirdness is somehow magically removed. Maybe Kevin went to couple's therapy). By this, I mean the weird dependency Kevin is trying to get Dana to form with him.  Now, while not every relationship is meant to be abusive, and symptoms of an abusive relationship could very wel...