VLVL Rex Snuvvle

[Paul Mackin]

On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 07:21, Bandwraith at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 2/16/04 4:13:38 PM, jbor at bigpond.com writes:
> 
> << There's no conclusive textual support for any of the surmises about Rex
> working for the FBI or DOJ or other authorities, of course. It's just as
> likely that, like the Pisks, he has come from a privileged background which
> allowed him to save up and buy the Porsche and live at the apartment at Las
> Nalgas Beach. >>
> 
> Somehow frozen danishes, second hand battle fatigues and the
> mention of a common department store seem a little less "privi-
> ledged" than Rex's porsche, the seaside digs and the carefree grad
> student existence... nice cover, if you can swing it.

Don't know if Rex was rich or poor but having a fancy car (even a
Porsche) in the American sixties was not a sign of privilege or
affluence. People bought cars on very easy to get credit and paid off
the loan in easy monthly payments. 

Of course the other side to the story was that the repossession business
flourished. For all we know the finance company was already well on the
trail of Rex. When Rex hands over the pink slip (California auto titles
are pink) we don't learn whether or not the title was unencumbered. For
all we know the name of some financing company appeared on it along with
Rex's. Elliot X might not have bothered to notice or care. Everything
was so transitory.