Zoyd's Pedolections

[Terrance]

Otto 

>Is it really a predilection for schoolgirls *or* isn't it something  different?

It's something different, Zoyd likes jail bait. 

"Lots of them I see in school everyday."

Vile minded Zoyd, when he's not trying to pick up the wife of one his
soon to be business partner, jerking off and stalking Frenesi on the
edge of Paradise, he's banging Prairie's classmates. It bothers her, 
too. When Chè and Prairie slip into the lingerie they lift on their
shopping spree Prairie can't help but think of Zoyd, her dad, and how
much he would enjoy seeing the display. 

I think the SL Into, provides the answer to Dave Monroe's question about
the significance of Zoyd's pedolection. I don't happen to agree with P.
He says that American men are really boys. He also says the Movements
put too much emphasis on youth, especially eternal youth.  Hector and
Zoyd debate this topic at the bowling alley. Hector takes Pynchon's
rather conservative position: grow up, you are going to die someday. LSD
is a drug that the men use to turn back the clock, become babies in the
candy houses of their own solipsistic minds, enjoy  mindless pleasures
(Mucho) and escape death (the X ray vision), responsibility. While they
blame all their problems on  their parents (in Zoyd's case, the
government), they stay in the nest forever, cause they need Big Nurse. 

It's more catch 22 than Cuckoo, although Takeshi and his wife belong in
Heller's comedy. 

Babies of WAck E Nest

And don't forget Rip Van Tinkle and Dennis Flange.