VLVL2 (1) Missed Communications: guilt

[barbara100 at jps.net]

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From: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>

> > "He understood it to be another deep nudge from forces unseen, almost
surely
> > connected with the letter that had come with his latest
mental-disability
> > check..."

Interesting thread. I'm following along right with you, Jbor, but here you
seem to be implying guilt on the part of Zoyd. I'm reading along in the book
real slow, just keeping pace with the discussion; and even though I've read
it before, I can't remember much, so it's like the first time again; and I'm
not sensing guilt in Zoyd at all. By chapter 3 I don't even care that he's a
welfare cheat. The poor bastard, a simple country boy, just wants to grow
some pot and pick crawdads out of local streams, raise his daughter in
relative peace and tranquility, and what's he get? Wakes up one morning to
two federales hard on his ass. And we find out it's not the first time, and
one of them even stole his woman back in the day, the mother of his infant
child.
Zoyd has all of my sympathy, and no reason at all to feel guilty. Fuck those
federales, fuck the Government and their stinking Social Security
Administration too! That's what I'd be thinking if I were Zoyd.