VL-IV Who was saved?

[Michael Bailey]

yeah, nice symmetry of the Zoyd-Hector and Frenesi-Hector lunches,
also the check in the mayo balances with the photo of Prairie left on the table

also the wedding question of Zoyd: "do you think love can save anyone?
 You do, don't you?"  - why is this a stupid question?
- because sure it can? (that's what I tend to think)
- because if you have to ask...?
- because Zoyd older and wiser has been taught that it can't?  and if
that's the case, then are we supposed to share or deplore the
cynicism?


On 12/21/08, bandwraith at aol.com <bandwraith at aol.com> wrote:
>
>  Just (especially after several glasses of merlot} pointing
>  out the obvious here. This turn is a setup, surely, for
>  the coming idyllic hippie union of Zoyd and Frenesi, where
>  Zoyd will ask that very same question being posed by
>  Hector, here, in the Vineland Lanes (which is, actually,
>  pretty idyllic itself, what with "intricately mortised master-
>  piece alleys," and the Saturday kids running all
>  over. It has to be Saturday, no?) but from the opposite
>  direction.
>
>  Besides "Fortuna," I think this question is what the book
>  is all about.
>
>  This lunch scene is probably taking place after a lunch
>  Hector has already had with Frenesi- described later in
>  the book- where he again uses Prairie as a means to
>  advance his "oily schemes." If that lunch has not already
>  taken place by the time of this meeting with Zoyd, I'm
>  sure he has at least planned it- Frenesi being one of the
>  others he's "trying to coordinate."
>
>  Point being, Hector is mediating between Zoyd and
>  Frenesi for what he thinks will be his own purposes,
>  using parental love, or what passes for it, as the
>  the bargaining chip.
>


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