VLVL Prairie and DL

[jbor]

on 17/10/03 11:14 PM, Terrance wrote:

>> Even Lemay's advances (he keeps calling Zoyd "Cheryl"
>> 8.12) don't necessarily fit the label.
> 
> Lemay knows that Zoyd is a man in a dress. He puts his hand on Zoyd's
> leg and tries to make him.

Lemay does come on to Zoyd, but as he does he keeps up the pretence that
Zoyd is "Cheryl". Line ball.

> In Chapter Two Zoyd asks Prairie if she has ever dated loggers. His joke
> about loggers at the log jam giving him money and phone numbers goes
> straight over her head.

One logger. Self-conscious irony on Zoyd's part. No suggestion that he's
homosexual, or that he's actually trying to fix up Prairie, and Prairie's
female anyway. Perhaps Zoyd's a bit obsessed wondering about whether
Prairie's literal virginity's intact, but she ain't saying.

> We could dismiss the sexual implications but I suggest we keep them in
> mind as we read on.

Sure.

best