IVing IV, a touching touch

[Michael Bailey]

ok right,

alice wrote:
>As if Penny is an empty vessel that must be filled with a male's love
>or whatever? Penny don't need no Doctor; she's a healthy gal. When
>Penny touches Doc, she communicates something that has nothing to do
>with traditional marriage, but with business; it's professional.

it's the little touches like that, though, that light up
the romantic side of the tale.

You're right, how many married guys' wives call them Doc anyway?
(probably not even too many real doctors I would imagine)

So they would have to put that nickname to bed somehow.

But that there isn't a romantic streak in the most professional
of career women including Penny, and a similar plexus operative
in Doc, is an assumption that seems disproven by certain tender moments
when the possibility arises like a crystal palace.

Can people can be so public-minded (external locus of control)
that career subsumes individual yearnings even in semi-private interactions?

Not saying it doesn't happen:
Roger and Jessica play this out but Beaver wins.  His role in society
trumps whatever private closeness Roger is able to develop with Jessica.
But Roger's mother is the War.

Doc's real parents provide him with a childhood he doesn't want to escape from.
It's something worth passing on.  Perhaps Vehi will one day
send him on a trip provoking meditations upon his Larryhood.




-- 
- "The doctor said give him jug band music; it seems to make him feel
just fine!"