VLVL2 Zoyd's work

[pynchonoid]

IF WE ACCEPT THE NOTION THAT USING POWER AGAINST THE
powerless is wrong, a clear enough set of corollaries
begins to emerge. We become able to distinguish, as
populations (thought not always their rulers) have
usually been able to do, between outlaws and
evil-doers, between outlawry and sin. Not much
analysis is needed, because it is something we can
sense in all its dead-serious immediacy. "But all they
are are bandits," the rulers whine indignantly,
"motivated only by greed." Sure. Except that, having
long known the difference between theft and
restoration, we understand the terms of the deal
whereby outlaws, as agents of the poor, being more
skilled and knowledgeable in the arts of karmic
readjustment, may charge no worse that an agent's fee,
small enough too be acceptable to their clients, ample
enough to cover the risks they have to take, and we
always end up loving these folks, we cheer for Rob
Roy, Jesse James, John Dillinger, at a level of
passion usually reserved for sports affiliation.
-Introduction to Jim Dodge's Stone Junction
<http://www.libyrinth.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_stone.html>
 

me:
> > Also recall Pynchon's own
> > distinction between outlaw and criminal ["outlawry
and sin"] , which he
> > details in his Stone Junction Intro.  If anybody
> is
> > "cheating" here, it's the government which has
> broken
> > the rules (i.e., Bill of Rights) in lending itself
> to
> > Brock's abuse vis-a-vis Zoyd.


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