VLVL Zoyd: good dad or bad dad?

[Ghetta Life]

>From: jbor <jbor at bigpond.com>>

>I'm surprised that you don't find his reunion with Prairie at the picnic 
>pretty low-key considering what was going on when he sent her away. He 
>doesn't appear to have tried to contact her via Sasha as he promised he 
>would, and when Hector tells him that she'll be up at Shade Creek (361) he 
>seems ... what? annoyed? distracted? Whatever it is, Prairie seems to be 
>the last thing on his mind at this point, when she should have been top of 
>the list. We know what she's been through; where's the evidence of paternal 
>concern for her well-being?
>
>Maybe it's just an oversight on Pynchon's part -- this last section does 
>seem to have been thrown together without a great deal of effective editing 
>and many of the resolutions he's devised ring somewhat hollow

I think your last point above is the problem:  VL just doesn't stand up to 
such scrutiny.  It's just not that well written, and it's not worth the 
trouble you all have been putting into it...

Ghetta

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