IVing IV, a touching touch

[alice wellintown]

On 12/1/09, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

This touch is about power. She disarms him by touching his.

>
> 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.

Certain tender moments?

Polonius speaks tenderly to his children, but he doesn't trust them. A
rotten Denmark is rotten to the heart and core. Penny, a flat land
lady just sold his ass to the feds and she got nothing for doing it.

She's still down at the bottom of the treehouse, where the only privy
she is privy to is what the boyz piss down upon her. But she keeps on
trying to get a look inside that treehouse, to climb its rope ladder,
to look down on the world from up there, even if she has to sell Larry
out again and again to prove she's one of the boyz. She sleeps with
him, feels something, I wouldn't call it "tenderness", the weed helps,
even prolongs the "tender" moment, but it ain't tender, it's just
earning her stripes. I'd call that fucking,  sucking,  and smoking the
pain, the guilt away.

>
> 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!"
>