re Zoyd

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Doc shares a lot of characteristics with Zoyd.

In IV, Hector got split into Bigfoot (-> relation to Doc) and Sauncho
(-> TV addiction).

Or better: Pynchon re-writes in IV the Zoyd/Hector relation with Bigfoot
and Doc, whereby Hector's TV addiction gets passed on to Sauncho.

Although our author feels, for my taste, a little bit too much compassion
for the poor cop struck inside LAPD arcana (some passages read as if TRP
wanted to make Detective Bigfoot Bjornsen the most likeable character in
his whole collected works), I think the Doc/Bigfoot relation is more complex
and elaborated than the one of Zoyd/Hector in Vineland.

kfl

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> From: dougmillison at comcast.net
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: re Zoyd
> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:33:28 -0700
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> Looking forward to hearing more about this, comparing VL and IV.
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>> "And DOC, is a Zoyd-Hector in IV. Again, not a sympathetic figure at all."
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