FW: VLVL2 (1) "More Is Less"

[Terrance]

> 
> I may as well warn yuz all early that I'm not buying any of
> what I'm sure some of yuz are loadin' up for, namely, that
> VL is somehow goin' to enoble the Labor Movement- 

Such has the been the subject of several critical essays. However, none
of these, as far as I know, deals with WORK. VL is a novel about Work.
The History of American Union Labor as sketched through Frenesi's family
is important, but it's WORK that really matters. What one does for a
living. How one gets a gig. Connections. Free Lunch.  Nepotism. Deals
and rackets. Who are we working for? Little Saints & Sinners  and big
Business & Bigger Government. 

VL is a novel about WORK and that is one reason to insist that  Zoyd is
not unemployed. He receives mental-disability checks. Not unemployment
checks. 
Not checks for a physical disability, but a mental-disability checks. He
works for the government,  jumps through glass. He also has a sideline
in crawfish. He also has a landscaping business. He's a gypsy roofer. A
local businessman. He gets a gig for the band ...  so on. 

All income comes from Labor. But whose labor is it? 

Work less, earn more. A Motto for the 1980's. But it didn't work out
that way at all. 

Well, it did for me, but not for you. Too bad. We can't all be rich.