VLVL 3 Zoyd and Hector

[jbor]

on 12/8/03 12:53 AM, Terrance at lycidas2 at earthlink.net wrote:

> 
> Why? 
> 
> Why should Hector make Zoyd so nervous?
> 
> And, how does Zoyd know it's Hector?
> 
> "Was it ESP, was it he only reacting to something in his friend's (Van
> Meter's) voice? [10]
> 
> We're not told. 

No, you're right. But we are told that Van Meter has "hustled" Zoyd, that
he's extremely involved in all the media crews, lighting, venue et. al and
that he very much wants Zoyd to make his scheduled appearance at the Cuke,
and that somehow (how?) he knows exactly where Zoyd is to call him at the
'Log Jam' to make sure he gets there in time. The way he lets Zoyd know
Hector's around also leads me to suspect that he has had a hand in
organising that rendezvous as well.

As I've said, I think Zoyd's "fear" is not of Hector, though he does realise
it is Hector that VM's gingerly referring to, but that something's up.

> Hector had been pretending to play the Zaxxon machine so P hits the
> comet/orbit note and he has been standing by the toilet so he also hits
> the goota-shit-throb note too.

I hadn't noticed the way the imagery works here. Thanks. It's another
example of Pynchon appropriating "low" culture and references (scatalogical,
in fact) to "literary" ends.

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