Zoyd

[Robin Landseadel]

On Aug 22, 2009, at 4:42 AM, Tore Rye Andersen wrote:

> Terrance:
>
>> But he also works for the big bad government. What does he do for  
>> them? He rats people out [...].
>
> "Hector had been trying over and over for years to develop him as a
> resource, and so far - technically - Zoyd had hung on to his  
> virginity."
> (VL, 12)
>
> I suppose the insertion of "technically" does allow for some ambiguity
> in the matter, but Zoyd is hardly a government-subsidized snitch on a
> par with Frenesi and Flash. He comes dangerously close after having  
> been
> framed with a big, shaggy monolith of marijuana, but Sasha comes  
> sashaying
> in and saves the day (VL, 294-95) - summoned, it is implied, by a  
> phone
> call from Hector.

More overt stupidity from A or T or whatever he/she/it chooses to call  
themselves this morning.

Pynchon is rather explicit about Zoyd's "Spiritual Purity", tying the  
Hollywood blacklist era to the drug era snitch programs of the DEA and  
other U.S. Government entities whose only reason for existence is to  
suck all the moxie out of its citizens. Zoyd is not a snitch, that's  
why he's in trouble.

Why would anybody want to turn Pynchon into some kind of a neo-con  
apologist anyway?