VLVL Count Drugula, or Mucho the Munificent

[jbor]

We've been over Zoyd's self-asserted "virginity" as a snitch, which the text
states is only "technically" true anyway (12), the genuine consideration
Hector shows towards Zoyd and Prairie during the drug set-up, and Frenesi's
pivotal role in facilitating Weed's murder and the collapse of PR3, and in
provoking the deal Brock forces on Zoyd. All the dopeheads in the novel are
presented as fools or snitches, or both. No-one here has tried to "turn a
blind eye" to Brock's abuse of power or to the antipathy towards American
government evident in the text -- that's a typical straw man attack -- but
there has been a constant attempt to gloss over or evade the obvious
criticisms of the 60s counterculture which the novel *also* presents.

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