VL-IV P 42, 43

[Michael Bailey]

Page 42

"What a trip, man!"
Van Meter, what a Job's counselor!  Ah, there's a concept, Vineland as
a modern reworking of the Book of Job.  If we accept Zoyd as righteous
to begin with, that is.

"Frenesi might be gone, but there would always be his love for
Prairie, burning like a night-light, always nearby, cool and low, but
all night long..."
which is true as far as it goes, but the salvation he was looking for
from Frenesi, where will he find that?  (and that's the beauty part of
_Vineland_ to me, because that's what's asked and answered over and
over and yet continually re-posed)

Page 43

"NEVER,"" answered the perky female voice on the other end.
"Huh?  I didt'n even ask you yet."
Her voice dropped half an octave.  "This is about Hector Zuniga -
maybe you'd better hold."

a) Zoyd's sense of humor (echoing Poe, eh? Is there balm in Gilead?
quoth the raven...)

b) how does she know it's about Hector?  it's a little early in 1984
for caller ID.  But maybe the number itself is a Hector Hotline? Or
has she been trained to recognize his voice?


Rick & Chick's Born Again - "conversion" takes on a double meaning at this shop!

twin personal notes:
1) the first US passenger diesel - my dad had one of these.  He didn't
have it converted, though he traded it fairly soon

2) back in 1978 my friends in Michigan told me about reading in the
Detroit paper of a man named Michael Bailey who was incarcerated after
jumping through a plate glass window in LA.  They debated about
whether it was me or not, especially since they knew I was traveling
in California at the time, but by the time they reached me they had
concluded it wasn't already.  (though it wasn't automatic)


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"Feliz Navidad"