Wheeler's Waxing and Waning

[Terrance]

gumbo at fuse.net wrote:
> 
> > OK. It's done.
> 
> We should save something to talk about when we get to this point in the reading, but for the benefit of those who don't have the book handy, here's what Zoyd actually says when he's "giving up" Shorty:
> 
> "Christ, Hector," croaking, shaking his head, "only Shorty I ever knew lives out in Hemet now and since his Vietnam days is takin' zero chances, won't even fly on the airplane no more, not too promising for you, outside of a little Darvon he cops off his ol' lady, he ain't even good for a Class III beef far 's I know."
> 
> I still think the question of Zoyd's purity is highly debatable.

And of course Hector ain't interested in Shorty the Bad. It's like in
that  T.S.  Eliot's Waste Land.  Could have been said by old V.
Nabokov,  "A Game of Chess." 

Come on Gumbo, Zoyd's got a kid, he ain't no virgin. 

And what does Zoyd Actually Say after he jumps and Hector bites the
glass? 

"Euchred again, Hector, thanks." [12]

Hector is like a lot of cops and teachers and people who work with kids
and the rest of them we spit on and toss coins at in Grand Central, he's
a bit of social worker. And you know what they say about social workers
right? 

mi ainm es Monika from Brazil and you can read Portuguese so we'll talk. 

Chow, 

M