Zoyd

[Michael Bailey]

 alice wellintown wrote:
>> Zoyd has to jump thru the window to keep Prairie!
>
> But what if Zoyd's jumping, perhaps after he forms a
> business partnership with Prairie's BF, I-24, who understands the Tube
> economics, grows into a big event and then goes national? Frenesi
> might see Zoyd on the Tube. Frenesi might come looking for her child.
> This is one of the things that motivates Zoyd. As you say, money isn't
> quite everything in America.
>

but although - as you point out - the "mentally ill" stipulation
didn't come from Brock but from Hector, tasked with the nuts and bolts
of BV's deal, I guess, and using this opportunity to humiliate Zoyd - or
pigeonhole Zoyd, with his affinity for pot smoke, as a crazy person...
(and, presumably, the "something publicly crazy" requirement came
from the mental health bureaucracy rather than either HZ or BV)

...what did emerge from Brock was an ironclad assurance on page 301, that
any reunion with Frenesi would be noticed and stomped upon.
So that can't be a realistic hope for him, any more than his late-night tv ads
for the "Not Too Tough to Cry" compilation.

furthermore, while yes I24 reaches out to Zoyd with his shooting gallery
plan, by the time we've finished reading about it we know it will never happen.
Zoyd recycles the young dude's energy into his own, realistic
plan for the band to play the Wayvone nups.   Nobody mentions that
plan again, do they?


> Shakespeare didn't say this, but somebody did: "To do good to one's
> enemies is love's labours lost."
>

 the gospel tells us otherwise

> Sasha's putting her family, even Zoyd, ahead of her Lefty Politics,
> seems to still have the power to save.
> Maybe not. Maybe, like Shakespeare's play, LLL, it's just a lot of
> fancy-ass footwork.

Au contraire, Vineland's honorificabilitudinitatibus - like Zoyd's -
glows more warmly the closer you approach it.




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