VLVL2 (3) A Finesi Romance #1

[Terrance]

> The opening paragraph of Ch3 is instructive. If Hector does wish
> "cartoon annihilation for Zoyd", we have to ask if he enjoys greater
> self-awareness than Sylvester. For any such "cartoon annihilation" is
> (a) more likely to be visited on the would-be perp himself, and (b)
> prove illusory, as any subsequent episode will assuredly demonstrate.
> Sylvester's tragedy isn't that he never learns his lesson, and always
> suffers when in pursuit of an impossible goal: his tragedy is that he
> must go on.

"On with the Show."  It's a Comedy, a Romance, and  so IT must go on,
THEY must go on. 


> Hector does seem to know better, "that Zoyd was the chasee he'd be least
> likely ever to bag". Given this degree of awareness, greater than
> Sylvester's, what drives him on? We're told that he's no longer
> "obsessed", but "for no reason he could name, [he] liked to keep on
> popping in every now and then, preferably unannounced".
> 
> Well, that suggests he's no less driven than Sylvester, and no less
> incapable of explaining, or rationalising, his actions. 


Hector is not a cartoon cat. He knows what Sylvester doesn't and can't
know. That shouldn't surprise us. He's a cop. DEA  Sure, he watches a
lot of TV and like lots of P characters from the novel V. to VL he
constructs his own identity based on Film and TV characters, but he's
not a cartoon.  Hector is not a cat on a cartoon program. He pops in now
and then. He doesn't know why, exactly, he just does. That's not the
same as being no less driven than Sylvester.