VLVL The deal

[jbor]

> Yes, but this "Bad Cop" scenario is by no means new or unusual.  It's as old
> as can be.  Cops are easy villians simply because of their power.

It's not even your typical 'bad cop' scenario either. Brock's motives are
sexual rather than political or criminal, and Frenesi and he are together
again when he forces Zoyd to make the deal. The set-up which Hector is sent
to implement is in reality an "estupidass marriage-counselor errand", one
which Hector's doing as "a favor for a friend" (295), and I get the
impression that the emphasis he puts on the word "*friend*" could suggest
that it's Frenesi he's actually referring to, not Brock.

Why else does Brock wait until "a year after Frenesi had moved out" before
going after Zoyd (294), unless it's Frenesi who is pulling his strings too
by dropping the bombshell about Prairie's existence? Attempted comparisons
to _1984_ are hopelessly strained imho.

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