AtD (37) p.1045 Merle R. appears, old farmland, flirting?

[Monte Davis]

Mark Kohut muses:
 
> Why does OBA have Lew and Merle come together here? Merle, 
> photographer and lightning rod salesman in film noir LA? 
> Where Hollywood is happening. 

Where modernity -- or a flickering electro-fictional projection, maybe all
we get, maybe all there is -- is being packaged for mass distribution. Where
we look to see how our heroes and goddesses behave (yo, Brangelina!), and
all the stories trade DNA in elevator pitches.