VLVL 3 Zoyd & Hector

[pynchonoid]

pynchonoid:
> > Equating Zoyd with Hector works only if you erase
> the
> > distinction Pynchon has made between those who
> wield
> > power (Hector, in this instance) and the powerless
> > (Zoyd). But don't let that stop you from
> > reinterpreting Zoyd in a way that makes him
> identical
> > to his oppressor.

--- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Zoyd isn't powerless.  Hector isn't his oppressor.

Depends on what kind of power and what kind of
oppression you mean, I guess. Hector clearly wields
the power of a federal agent and Zoyd doesn't.  Zoyd
has been the victim of this power -- it has
constrained his activities in significant ways ever
since Hector and later Brock have subjected him to
their power beginning in the Gordita Beach days. 

Zoyd does manage to escape this particular
fucker/fuckee loop by the end of the novel; he's saved
-- by the higher power of divine justice (p. 369)




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