IVIV, "is what that means is, is that----"

Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 31 10:18:21 CDT 2009


'Not you, Bong Brain", Bambi muttered.
Doc stammers inarticulately as it dawns on him....what Pussy-Eater's Special means?

Jade reaches for Bambi's bikini...after Bong Brain seemed to drift toward that male fantasy of 2 women at once. "Oboy, " Doc said. "Where do we---"

The "sexual revolution" of the sixties, a little 'polymorphous perversity' [Norman O. Brown] all in a few lines....


Our crackerjack P.I is pretty slow-witted, yes? 


Discussion question: Due to dope and/or his natural talents, bringing up that ole reliability question, Doc ain't too smart is he?...DEFINITELY a 
stupid cousin of Philip Marlowe (and the others). Walter Kirn in the Times
sorta called him an everyman, us...true? how? Any reason besides alluding to 'doper's brain" that TRP made him so, ya think?




      



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