Shorty VL 303

[alice wellintown]

But hypocrites or not, alice is still wrong: Zoyd does emphatically NOT
"rat people out for the government." There's a huge difference between
active snitching and Zoyd's passivity. Zoyd may be guilty of Sloth as most
of the rest of us (see Pynchon's essay on Sloth and the sins of ommission),
but he's not a snitch. Calling him so is a plain misreading, and not just a
matter of whether we choose to regard Zoyd in a forgiving or a harshly
satirical light.
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When BV has Zoyd pounded in the jail, Hector, the good cop, comes in
and gets him to rat on Shorty.