Shorty VL 303

[Robin Landseadel]

On Aug 22, 2009, at 5:03 PM, alice wellintown wrote:

> 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.
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
> When BV has Zoyd pounded in the jail, Hector, the good cop, comes in
> and gets him to rat on Shorty.

Yep, that shore makes out Zoyd to be some kinda shit-heel, eh?

Hector, whateverthehell he may be, ain't nobody's conception of a  
"Good Cop."