VLVL Sasha and the divorce

[jbor]

>>> 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.

The divorce papers come through on "the day before his very first window
jump" (36). I'm trying to locate the part in the text that specifies that
Zoyd has to stay in Vineland, which might add support to your contention
that Sasha has had a hand in orchestrating the deal.

>>> 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. 

The episode projects forward in time as well ("But they were to find
themselves, amazingly, on the same side of the law after all ... " 56-7).
I.e., after the deal.

You've said that Sasha wants to keep Prairie away from Frenesi. What are you
basing this on?

I think that Zoyd and Sasha agree to co-operate to ensure that there are "no
custodial battles ever". They both realise that if either one or the other
ever try to take the case to the court the inevitable upshot would be that
"Prairie would end up a ward of the court" (57). So, they "coordinate their
lives" and share the responsibility. It's a private "arrangement" (56).

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