back to IVing IV: "What", Doc wondered aloud, "the fuck, is going on here?"

[Mark Kohut]

Michael Bailey writes:
"schweet!  so that means that Bigfoot at the behest of Them
is shopping AP to Doc;
an asset who has become a liability
They have no gratitude only expediency, can't have AP around to possibly
shoot off his mouth...
he's gotta sleep with the fishes, Doc is way out of the loop so he won't
talk, or even if he does it doesn't matter
and Bigfoot is plausible enough as a grieving partner to temporarily fool Doc"

I second. No honor among thieves once betrayal takes root. 

--- On Thu, 12/3/09, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: back to IVing IV: "What", Doc wondered aloud, "the fuck, is going  on here?"
> To: "P-list" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Thursday, December 3, 2009, 12:56 AM
>  Richard Fiero wrote:
> >
> > Perps are released all the time "in the furtherance of
> justice." The people
> > who own the file also own Adrian Prussia, not the
> other way around.
> >
> 
> schweet!  so that means that Bigfoot at the behest of
> Them
> is shopping AP to Doc;
> an asset who has become a liability
> They have no gratitude only expediency, can't have AP
> around to possibly
> shoot off his mouth...
> he's gotta sleep with the fishes, Doc is way out of the
> loop so he won't
> talk, or even if he does it doesn't matter
> and Bigfoot is plausible enough as a grieving partner to
> temporarily fool Doc
> 
> this reminds me of how there are inklings that Nixon's
> fall
> was served up by Them
> and that the satisfaction that we felt about that (friend
> of mine made
> a point of
> saving the headline from that day) was as insubstantial as
> what Doc can feel
> about doing in AP, and indeed as unsatisfying as Frank
> killing Sloat though we
> didn't know it right away like Frank did...
> 
> 
> -- 
> - "The doctor said give him jug band music; it seems to
> make him feel
> just fine!"
>