VL-IV p29

[Michael Bailey]

>This particular scene wouldn't be that hard to film, it's almost like
My Dinner With Andre.

so we could act it out with our "My Dinner With Andre action figures"

On 12/19/08, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> this long stretch of conversation is hard to write about.
>
> It's pretty straightforward in a way, easy enough to follow.  I have
> half a mind to just skim over it and come back later if I get any
> coherent thoughts that run deeper.
>
> This particular scene wouldn't be that hard to film, it's almost like
> My Dinner With Andre.
>
> Anyway...page 29
>
> (well maybe Zoyd wasn't about to sob on the other page.  Alternate decoding
> -
> Yah - you guys lost her file
> hah - that means she's free to rove about the country
> hah - she might come back to me
> hah - but shit, you guys are STILL going to stand in the way)
>
> "Who was saved?"
> good one - appeal to Zoyd's conscience.  Does his refusal to
> co-operate with law enforcement actually help the people he doesn't
> turn in?
>
> "You, Hector."
> and that, for some reason, makes Hector at least fake sadness.  All
> this falling brings Milton's Satan to mind, of course, but Hector's no
> immortal spirit.  Or is he?
>
> "Zoyd, the big idealist, liked to believe that Hector remembered
> everybody he'd ever shot at, hit, missed, booked, questioned, rousted,
> double-crossed - that each face was filed in his conscience, and the
> only way he could live with such a history was to take these chances"
> - a) Zoyd, the big idealist?
> - b) however you slice it, there are two very different viewpoints
> sitting at the table
> ...whether it's rationalization or true belief on either side
> For Hector, he's working to eliminate a source of crime and enforce the law
> For Zoyd, Hector's efforts mess up free flow of useful product and
> express Hector's evil nature
>
> but the "big idealism" really does expand from just thinking Hector
> has a conscience, to something not too far from old Jess's Emerson
> quote about the universal balance...and "kept Zoyd from lying around
> hatching plots to assassinate Hector"
>


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"It was all of a piece" - the drunk in Kesey's _Sometimes a Great
Notion_ explaining why he couldn't stop drinking from the leavings in
the discard can at the end of the bar, even though people were begging
him and offering him money to put it down