IVIV, "Congratulations, Hippie Scum", p.22

[Mark Kohut]

Bigfoot Bjornsen, am embodiment of a "foot in the face" forever greets Doc.  He is a preemptive fascist, comically-savagely presented the whole book. 

"Welcome to a world of inconvenience'....wiki notices the allusion to Goodman character in Big Lebowski and his 'welcome to a world of pain"...

Seems here P uses a favorite word since M & D..and of course most famous from Atd...The word seems to mean something like an intransigent force....the world or another's/others' will(s) thwarting one....an Iliad of inconvenience is a nice phrase concerning that from M & D.

(in AtD it seems the Inconvenience is named for its handling of global inconveniences, like that Rebellion of the South in America a bit before AtD begins)


TRP might have gotten it originally from Locke, he of 'nasty, brutish and short" life....

"It is true that Locke does here talk of 'inconveniences' in the state of nature whereby people 'are quickly driven' into political society."

by Reinhold Niebuhr
"Locke finds the condition of nature "inconvenient" rather than anarchic and his natural law is not abrogated by civil law. Rather civil law must be regarded" ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0664257097... -

"individuals would have to rely on self-help, which Locke calls “inconvenient”. "(ibid., 317–20). Without the law of nature there would be no criterion for de ...
www.springerlink.com/index/p3502258j7843p7r.pdf

So, speaking to MB's observation of where cops as the State interact with citizens, P presents Bigfoot as a rep of the State as a malignant force of nature, so to speak.