VLVL Zoyd: good dad or bad dad?

jbor jbor at bigpond.com
Thu Apr 15 07:24:23 CDT 2004


> Btw, there's nothing in the text to say that Zoyd rang Hub: how would Zoyd
> know where to locate him anyway? Hub's at the opening of some random
> department store outside Sacramento. Isn't it far more likely that Hub has
> rung Zoyd's and Frenesi's house to find out how Frenesi was going, and that
> Zoyd gave him "word of his new grandchild" (287) then?

And applying the tenet of parsimony to why Hub rang Zoyd's and Frenesi's
house instead of Sasha's: well, he was ringing to find out how his daughter
was, and that's where he thought she would be.

best




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