VLVL Prairie and DL

[jbor]

on 17/10/03 4:03 PM, Terrance at lycidas2 at earthlink.net wrote:

> PS I think I'll hold off talking about the homosexual stuff for now. But
> it begins in chapter one when Zoyd goes to the Log Jam.

The double entendre on the name "Log Jam", at least, is obvious enough,
though it's worth interrogating that scene a bit more closely. This was
apparently always the name of the bar, even before it became an up-market
haunt. Zoyd's transvestitism is an act, and to categorise it as "homosexual
stuff" is inaccurate. Even Lemay's advances (he keeps calling Zoyd "Cheryl"
8.12) don't necessarily fit the label.

I don't think there are "homosexual overtones present in every chapter thus
far", as you stated, and I disagree that Prairie's response to DL is sexual.

best

> We need Brock
> and DL to make much of it. But I'm sure that Prairie's initial response
> to DL is sexual.