VLVL Sasha and the divorce
Terrance
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Sun Apr 11 21:06:41 CDT 2004
jbor wrote:
>
> Terrance:
>
> > It will be a while before Zoyd actually gets the Letter Of Agreement and
> > Divorce, stipulating that he must stay in Vineland and do something
> > crazy each year,
>
> But he knows about it on the day he gets out of gaol, and he tells Sasha the
> exact details of the deal then (304.31-5).
I disagree. He tells Sasha about the deal he thought he'd made. He's not
quite sure about the exact details.
>
> > but Hector, Frenesi, Brock, and I think Sasha too, know
> > what the deal is.
>
> Sure she does: Zoyd tells her.
Zoyd tells her about the deal he thought he made, including the part
about the mental disability arrangement, but he's still not sure about
the exact details.
>
> > Sasha, it seems to me, would like to keep Prairie for
> > herself, but she can't, so she sends Zoyd up to Vineland because she
> > wants to keep Prairie away from Frenesi, the lesser of two evils.
>
> I disagree. The conversation between Zoyd and Sasha (305-6) tells us that
> Brock had gloated that Sasha is a "push-button lefty, ideology before
> family" and that she would "never let her [Frenesi] near Prairie", but it's
> not the case at all.
But Brock says this about Sasha after the deal is made so I can't quite
figure out why you are pointing me to an episode that happens before the
deal is made.
As we saw at the airport when Frenesi and then Zoyd
> flew off to Hawaii, Sasha knew all about Brock and Frenesi but she held her
> tongue (56-8).
Right.
This episode happens *before* the marijuana monolith set up
> and deal (in fact, Zoyd stalking and abusing Frenesi in Hawaii is probably a
> primary cause in her decision to go back to Brock, leading eventually to the
> "deal" she orchestrates to ensure that Prairie is looked after.)
OK.
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