VLVL2 Zoyd's work

[jbor]

on 27/7/03 12:37 PM, Don Corathers wrote:

> I'm not sure you can say that the disability check is his main source of
> income. (We actually have no idea how much the monthly payment is, but it's
> probably pretty small.)

I'm not sure you can say it isn't, either. It'd be his only *regular* source
of income, certainly.

As he and Prairie discuss household finances and the danger quotient of his
annual act Zoyd asks himself:

    How, then, unless he could count on sugar windows from
    here on in, could he expect to bring in any more revenue
    this way? Heck -- he should have been working for a Joey
    Chitwood-type thrill show all this time and making some
    real money. (17.4)

It's another moment where he's starting to have second thoughts about what
he's been doing all this time, and his reservations actually go a bit deeper
than the "sugar window" issue I think. I also think this is a pretty clear
indication that the disability cheques have been the main source of income.

And the fact that he's got extra income coming in from all these other
*incidental* cash jobs only emphasises the fact that he has been and is a
welfare cheat.

The other point to make is that Zoyd here describes the receipt of welfare
cheques as "revenue", and the alternative, performing a paid stunt act in a
"thrill show", as "working". I'd say he seems to have a fairly grounded
concept of what "work" actually is.

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