VLVL2 (1) Missed Communications: guilt

[joeallonby]

on 7/22/03 9:32 PM, barbara100 at jps.net at barbara100 at jps.net wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>
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>>> "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.
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>>All the federales say,
>>We could've had him anyday
>>We only let him slip away
>>Out of kindness, I suppose