Shorty VL 303

[alice wellintown]

Penguin soft  284-285

Right, he does show her the recall notice in the paper. But it doesn't
matter. It's just a football game; time is running out. The women will
get the W.  His yelling, his crying, his acid dropping, his surfer's
eye on the big set of swells he hopes to ride with a band full of
junkies all tripping in solopsistic isolation and betting on an
Indolent record roulette wheel turning, so they can stay turned on and
on and on. Here, we see  Zoyd's Tubel addiction is evident: the
football, the star trek . . . and the LSD ...both, what today might be
called SMART instruments, but only instruments of solitude,
individualism, romantic immaturity.  The American Narcissus crawling
toward any possible transcendental edxperience. But money can't buy
back God.



>> He tries to run Frenesi and Sasha over with the car. Of course, he has
>> a history of car-death driving.
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> - but he shows her, in the paper: that's what the recall was about!
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> "My God, I am fully in favor of a little leeway or the damnable jig is
> up! " - Hapworth Glass
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