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

[Joseph Tracy]

On Dec 3, 2009, at 12:56 AM, Michael Bailey wrote:


>  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;
>
The problem with this is that Doc is the likely loser going up  
against 2 professional killers, and what would BF gain from that?

> 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...
>

  Though I find the above mentioned caveat troubling , I've come to  
the same reading as Michael is giving here. I think Doc  and the  
reader is seeing  at the end of the book that he may have killed some  
nasty thugs, but he hasn't made much of a dent in the war and wants  
to be where the war is not,  and where he is not known.

On the other hand what does  a society do to stop violent criminal  
enterprises? Do people sometimes act as agents of Karmic adjustment?

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