IVing IV 'indict a bean burrito', p. 277

[Joseph Tracy]

On Dec 1, 2009, at 6:00 AM, alice wellintown wrote:


> Who is driving the conversaton? If the objective is sex, it's all
> foreplay and Penny takes the initiative here.
>
The objective is information, sealed files that Doc gets a look at.
Nothing sealed about what Penny gets, just an eye witness account.

> Larry is, after all, not
> like them boyz up in the treehouse at the office so she can, once he
> shows her his and she shows him hers, invite him to her place for the
> basics: food and sex and weed and human comfort. What has Larry
> learned about women? It's 1970, he's learned that its not 1950 and
> that women are G-persons too. He stills steps on his dick when he
> engages in conversations with females. He's a knight; he looks for
> clues, but he doesn't listen. Penny, a career gal, is also shooting in
> the dark here because she is not privy to the boyz privy conversations
> so she doesn't know what "We've suspect, but can't prove ..." because
> she not in the We. Of course, we could describe this situation as
> "something shitty they won't do..." but it's actually something shitty
> Penny will do and has done, to Larry. While it's clear that the John
> Jacob Astors get away with murder while the forgers of mortgage
> documents end up in the Tombs, this is not endemic to Nixon Reagan
> Bush people but the American way.
>
Of course it goes way back in history. But it is theoretically  
essential to the contract outlined in the constitution and the  
breaking of the contract declared in the Declaration of Independence  
that justice and government be accountable to the governed, and this  
story is set in the 70s , with the murders , abuses and secrets  
particular to that time.  The law is supposed to have a higher  
purpose than catching deranged sociopaths like Manson and using them  
to placate public outrage about  the massive criminality of the  
Vietnam War and the post New deal political takeover of corporations.
  I find the relationship to be fundamentally symmetrical because  
Larry makes it so. Penny is the betrayer, but Doc let's it go and  
puts things on even ground. He is not fundamentally driven by  
revenge, or hurt feelings , or stupidity either. And contrary to your  
underlying contention, he is  also the one who initiated this  
meeting; and how much control can this hiccuping, running to the  
bathroom  lawyer have?

> Life, as Bob Dylan sez, is a Jet
> Plane, it moves too fast, love is so simple to quote a phrase. We've
> known this all along. Larry's learning it these days.
>
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