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Response to Pychnon (1) 24 February 1994
1. For Isiah Two Four, violence is a commodity. He hopes to build a network of “violence
centers” in which ticketholders could take out their aggression on representations of
various real world evils, such as “‘Scum of the City…including Pimps, Perverts, Dope
Dealer, and Muggers.” Such a proposition suggests Isiah’s view that violence leads to
feelings of strength in an overpowering world.
For DL, violence is a calculated process, whereby a person methodically plans each step
of an assault. Her training in Ninjitsu gives her fantastic lethal abilities, with which she
is able to focus her rage against Brock Vond. This approach, like Isiah’s, does something
to sterilize the violence, or somehow remove the grittiness from the act.
3. Sex connects to death when DL uses an intimate situation to place the Vibrating Hand
on a man she believes to be Brock Vond — the term Vibrating Hand sounds more like a
sex trick than a mortal strike. Sex, like violence, is commodified in the discussion of
Japanesesponsored white slavery.