VL-IV Poe quote dragged in / Ch 4 Timeline Effort / Pg 35

[John Bailey]

Mike Bailey:
"Who says Zoyd isn't a good neighbor?  How many of us would loan
anybody their car?"

I've been thinking about this - the first few chapters of the book
frequently focus on Zoyd's checks that will likely bounce and various
people helping each other out with no expectation of payback. Debts,
favours, credit, interest... later this will bring in karma, revenge,
DL bound to Takeshi to balance her mistakes, maybe all those
hauntings. I don't think P is criticising the world economy based on
credit cards and debt, but it's something much bigger. I'm not sure of
a good word for it. It's refigured in ATD as Grace, but it's in here
too.

No doubt about it, though - for me it's much preferable to have family
and neighbours who'll loan you their car because you need it than it
is to deal with people only looking for a return. That's the problem
with karma - are we only supposed to do good things so that we'll be
rewarded?


On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> Prairie's reaction to dad's news, a complicated series of emotional twists,
> is the real reason for the scene:
>
>        She gave him a look that he didn't, so early in the day, attend to
>        the full risk of, telling him she trusted him not to be running
>        some cruel put-on. They'd been known not to share a sense of
>        humor on many topics, her mom in particular.
>
> As I recall we see more of Prairie and less of Zoyd from this point on.
>