VLVL2 (4) Erasing the past (still a Finesi romance)

[Terrance]

snarf wrote:
> 
> Paul Nightingale wrote:
> 
> >The children equate work with play; their parents don't. Nothing odd about
> that at all.
> 
> I'd rather say: the children work, their parents don't. (Zoyd jumps through
> windows for a living, Moonpie and RC are happy with the money coming out of
> her children). 

Zoyd works plenty. 

As Hector says, Zoyd ain't afraid to work. 


I think maybe P. is putting in contrast the hippy attitude
> towards work and the "new generation" having to work because of their
> potheaded elders. 

I don't think this is right at all. 



Priaire's attitude towards Zoyd is both ironic and
> maternal, she does not take Zoyd seriously (can you take your father
> seriously seeing him jumping outside a window in a dress on TV? It's
> embarrasing). I'm afraid the children are the grown-ups.


Not quite. Prairie doesn't always trust him. But who can you trust in
this book.