VLVL2(8) 116 Kaballah and Motorcycles

[Terrance]

Interesting thing here is that DL goes from riding a Czech bike to
driving a Trans AM. 
Like Pig Bodine in V., she likes machines. Why a Czech Bike? Why a Trans
AM? Recall that back on page 43 Zoyd goes to see Rick & Chick and Vato &
Blood are there. Why does Zoyd go to see them? 

He goes to see RC & Moonpie because he has a side in crawfish with them.
He visits Hobbes because he does work for Hobbes and to get cash and a
disguise. But why does he visit Rick & Chick (runs into Vato & Blood)?
Is it the Jikov 32, that Skoda carburetor? 
Can't be sure. But there it is. So why these Czech machines? Cheap
labor? Whne Zoyd shows up a the Log Jam he sees German and Japanese cars
in the parking lot. The men there try to give him money. At least that's
what he tells Prairie and even if he's making this up the implication is
that foreign money is funding the Vineland economy. 


The Law of Diminishing Return  & the Marshall Plan & Co. 

What's going on? Vato & Blood steal cars. But they are very selective
thieves. They were in the motor-pool in Vietnam, doing business with the
"Communists." 


Under Communism and pressure from the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia
refused to
participate in  the Marshall Plan. And so the story goes. 

WORK! 

What happens there happens here only it's twisted in the opposite
direction. 

In the 1960's there was flowering there and in the US  of much more than
children. 

pfm2 wrote:
> 
> DL gets some remarkably good press here:
> 
> "The basic stone bowelflash had come and gone about the time DL showed
> up, all in black including helmet and face shield, riding her esteemed
> and bad red and silver Czech motorcycle, the Che Zed, overdesigned in
> every part....."
> 
> The name of the motorcycle is hardly an accident - they don't happen
> here. Just a joke? or what?
> 
> pfm
> 
> Chesed
> "Lovingkindness"
> 
> Chesed is the fourth of the ten sefirot, and the first of the emotive
> attributes within Creation.
> 
> Chesed appears in the configuration of the sefirot along the right axis,
> directly beneath chochmah, and corresponds in the tzelem Elokim to the
> "right arm.''
> 
> Chesed is associated in the soul with the desire to embrace all of
> Creation and bestow upon it goodness. As the expansive force which
> impels the soul to connect with outer reality, chesed inspires, and thus
> implicitly accompanies, all the other expressions of emotive force which
> succeed it in the soul.
> 
> Some Chesed-related crises are more about HOW TO BLESS OTHERS than how
> to help oneself. Strongly humanitarian personality types (such as
> teachers, healers and therapists) are quite prone to this.. as are
> parents, lovers and friends of someone who is undergoing a life-changing
> crisis or trauma AND WHO DESPERATELY WANT TO HELP their loved-one get
> through the problem.