VL & the Work of mourning

[Don Corathers]

I think it's at least suggested if not explicit that the choice of having a
conventional career has been denied to Zoyd by his deal with Brock Vond. He
agreed to disappear, to live off the grid. Not that Zoyd seems like the
corporate type, but he was only about 25 when the deal was struck--young
enough that his life might have unfolded in any number of ways. At the time
he was playing in a band that had a record deal. Weird and ultimately
unproductive record deal, but still, for a musician, that's a solid step
towards a career.

D.C.




----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Strzechowski" <dedalus204 at comcast.net>
To: "Pynchon-L" <pynchon-l at waste.org>; "Don Corathers" <gumbo at fuse.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 11:11 PM
Subject: Re: VL & the Work of mourning


>
> >
> > Not sure what it means to say that work "for Zoyd merely seems to equate
> an
> > activity with receiving monetary compensation." This is different from
you
> > and me? Don't we all basically trade labor for money?
> >
>
> Yes, we do.  I was differentiating between working in the sense of a
career
> (salary, paid vacation, benefits, mobility within the company, etc.) and
the
> accumulation of one odd-job after another, without the consistency of the
> aforementioned things.
>
> Thanks, by the way, for building the case for Zoyd's work ethic in
response
> to my post.  And yes, being a single parent is incredibly difficult work,
> which ties in nicely with the Prairie and Zoyd post earlier.
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Tim
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