VLVL Zoyd: good dad or bad dad?

[Terrance]

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> > What do you make of his predilection for high school girls? (VL.54)
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> I find it telling that Prairie surmises: "Know what I think? [...] you must
> have always loved my mom, so much that if it couldt'n be her, it wouldt'n be
> anybody" (54).  And even though he doesn't agree with this interpretation of
> hers, it kinda smacks of ol' Humbert's Anabelle Leigh syndrome.

Prairie wants to go camping with her boy friend and the Band, but she
ends up going camping with Zoyd, sleeping with him in the
smurf-mobile/hippie-camper. 

Perhaps the processes of urbanization, industrialization, knowledge
accumulation,  technological development, not to mention the effects of
a couple-few World Wars, is too much for the average conservative
american individual to handle. Everyone in this novel preaches what they
can't practice. Hector wants to keep families together and keep kids off
drugs. But his own family is broken by his addictions. Doesn't stop him
from  acting in the conservative american values sort of way from time
to time, calling Sasha when Zoyd is busted or preaching to Zoyd about
fathering. I don't think it makes much sense to talk about Zoyd without
talking about his Z-double, Zuñiga.