VLVL2 (14) Father of the Year + Question Mark

[Paul Nightingale]

> Given that Hub only knows what's going on because Zoyd tells him I
think
> it's a reasonable analysis. I'm not confusing anything with anything,
> just following the narrative: because Zoyd calls Hub, Hub arrives
home,
> thereby facilitating a reconciliation that Sasha welcomes but
> wouldn't/couldn't have made the first move on.
> >
> > He takes
> > > responsibility for bringing back Hub to be reconciled with Sasha
> > > (287-288).
> >
> > You'll have to be more specific, can't find this in the book.
> >
> Its pretty specific already: the phone call mid-287 to Sasha's
> "uncustomary embrace, sighing, clumsy", top of 288.
> 

Well, I suppose I can plead guilty to one clumsy oversight, Y'Honour; in
mitigation, it hardly compares to crimes committed against the text by
some readers on a daily (even hourly) basis.

However, the key point remains valid. If Hub does call Zoyd, it's
because calling Sasha isn't an option. And whatever is said during their
conversation, Hub has the impression that Zoyd will be present when he
arrives, otherwise why ask where he is. As for Zoyd "clock[ing] out"
etc, this is Sasha's (hardly impartial) description: in the same speech
she informs us that he's "probably off on one of the lesser-known
planets by now".