VLVL2(3): Maybe it Got too Cold Ffor Him

[Dave Monroe]

"Zoyd guessed that at some point since their last
get-together Hector, as if against a storm,
approaching over his life's horizon, had begun to
bring everything indoors.  Stuck out in the field at
GS-13 for years because of his attitude, he had
sworn--Zoyd thought--he'd go out the gate early before
he'd ever be some cagatintas, a bureaucrat who shits
ink.  But he must have cut some deal, maybe it got too
cold for him--time to say goodbye to all those
eyeswept parking lots back out under the elements and
the laws of chance, and hello GS-14, leaving the world
outside the office to folks earlier in their careers,
who could appreciate it more.  Too bad.  For Zoyd, a
creature of attitude himself, this long defiance had
been Hector's most pervasive selling point." (VL, Ch.
3, pp. 25-6)


"hello GS-14"

Special Agents enter service as GS 10 employees on the
government pay scale and can advance to the GS 13
grade level in field non-supervisory assignments.
Promotions to supervisory, management, and executive
positions are available in grades GS 14 and GS 15 as
well as in the Senior Executive Service....

http://www.fbi.gov/employment/advance.htm

http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fbi/budget.htm

https://www.fbijobs.com/JobDesc.asp?src=001&requisitionid=368


cagatintas

caga ‘shits’

http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/i.e.mackenzie/phonemes.htm

tinta
  1. ink

http://dictionaries.travlang.com/SpanishEnglish/

CAGATINTA : Empleado de oficina, escribiente

http://www.geocities.com/milonguero12/tumbaburroslunfacd.html

http://www.geocities.com/horaciosacco/matalunfa.html

"a bureaucrat who shits ink"

http://blather.newdream.net/c/cagatintas.html


"maybe it got too cold for him"

John Le Carré, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
(1963)

http://www.johnlecarre.com/newsite/spycold.htm

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)

http://us.imdb.com/Title?0059749

http://www.ianfleming.org/mkkbb/magazine/spywho.shtml

"Readers may also feel shorted because of how, more
than anyone, the masterful John Le Carré has upped the
ante for the whole genre."

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0211&msg=72987&sort=date

"What do you think spies are: priests, saints and
martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools,
traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards,
people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their
rotten lives."

http://www.bartleby.com/66/36/35236.html

"Except for the succession of the criminally insane
who have enjoyed power since 1945, including the power
to do something about it, the rest of us poor sheep
have always been stuck with simple, standard fear." 

http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/bio/influences.html

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