VLVL Father of the year

[jbor]

>> Still not sure about those moral yardsticks, but:
>> 
>> At first it had seemed like a terrific idea, a perfect break
>> for them both, at a critical time. Sasha had been there too, to
>> see her off on the flight, she and Zoyd handing the half-asleep
>> Prairie back and forth, arms to arms, like a rehearsal of
>> arrangements to come. (56.22-25)
>> 
>> This description of how Prairie gets handed back and forth between Zoyd and
>> Sasha at the airport relates pretty explicitly to Zoyd's sudden change of
>> heart and his decision to dump Prairie on Sasha and chase after Frenesi on
>> that dodgy red-eye flight to Honolulu. And there is an implication in that
>> last clause that this was a common occurrence as Prairie was growing up.

on 23/9/03 11:51 PM, Terrance wrote:
> 
> Prairie wants a Mom. Zoyd likes Jail Bait. Familiar story ... Benny ...
> Slothrop ... 

Yes. I'm wondering whether this particular episode, where Zoyd suddenly
dumps Prairie on Sasha and hops on that plane to "once again come messing
with her privacy", which is how Frenesi sees it (36.11), happens before or
after Frenesi deserts her mom and Prairie for good and goes back with Brock
(292-3). And where the bogus dope raid and subsequent deal that Brock sets
up with Zoyd so that he will get those regular welfare payments which will
help him look after the kid actually fit in?

If the Honolulu episode happens before this sequence of events, which seems
to be the case, then it's pretty clear that Frenesi had already decided to
leave Zoyd - the family had split up - *before* she hooks up with Brock for
the second time (292-3). And, if so, it seems pretty likely that Frenesi has
had a hand in what happens to Zoyd with the marijuana obelisk and the
welfare deal. I think it might pay to keep a close eye on the order in which
these events actually occur.

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> What's wrong with Elvissa?
> 
> Thapsia? 
> 
> They seem to be playing Mom from time to time, helping Zoyd out.  What?
> Too old? Too sane? Too many family skills?
> 
> But if Zoyd hooked up with one of these women that might  mean growing
> up a bit and learning to love his neighbor. And live with her too.
> 
> Zoyd is kinda like  Benny Profane with  children. I'll never believe
> that Benny left Fina and the kids for some yo-yo road trip across the
> sea to an Island where a Mother nearly aborted the Christ Child.
> 
> Imagine that. Dependents. And he's kinda like Mason too. His wife is
> dead. Well, she's a ghost. An image, A shade. His kid(s) are taken care
> of and raised by other family members. Kinda like, not exactly like.
> Like the Baker and the Gaffer. Zoyd, like Mason and Benny, goes for the
> sickly ones, the gothic Slyvia Plaths in British Black.
> 
> But come now, some jail bait is by nature all blossomed out in mother's
> hips and milk. 
> It's not the same as that little girl that brushed her fanny against
> Brock's knees ... not Pointsman's poor bus station babies.