Zoyd

[John Carvill]

> "Zoyd, to be sure, made a point of never pocketing any of Hector's PI money
> personally, though he was content to go on eating the groceries, burning the
> gas, and smoking the pot others obtained with it." (VL 24)
>
> PI = "Purchase-of-Information"

Thanks for that insight. We had no idea.

>
> Zoyd is characterised here as both a hypocrite and a knowing accomplice in
> the snitch racket.

Shite-talk.

> The negative tone adopted in the narrative towards Zoyd
> in this instance is quite plain, and it's precisely what the "technically"
> hedge in the earlier scene is referring to.
>

How can a hedge be precise? You take nuance and, passing it through
the prism of your idiocy, make it absolute.

That 'technically' opens up all sorts of possibilities. You seek to
shut them all down. Your 'reading' of Vineland has always been skewed
by your right-wing politics and your sour-minded worldview.