IV Chapter 18 Thoughts

[alice wellintown]

It's not his Tube.


 He has conflicted feelings about the song because he "chased down a
debtor or two." Of course, Larry's language here "just because he's
chased down a debtor or two" is his way of dealing with the guilt by
reducing his sins to just a "debtor or two."  We know that he chased
down more than a debtor or two. In this chapter, after Puck explains
basic M-M Marxism to Larry; time is lent and time is exacted, usury
and the criculation and velocity of money, Larry murders Puck and
Adrian, and ends up with a commodity for exachange--smack, which,
after it is packaged in a TV box, is information exchanged for
understanding & knowledge. And, that he chased down a debtor or two &
now a murderer or two must be read in light of what Shasta says about
work and about how those who atart off resisting the cops & corruption
end up corrupt cops. At the end, while Larry pretends he is not
Bigfoot's partner, we know that he is.

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>  alice wellintown wrote:
>
>> On pg. 51 we learn that Larry fell behind on his car payments and was
>> hired as a skip-tracer. Does the outfit, Gotcha! Searches and
>> Settlements, ever come after his Tube? I can't recall this.
>
> it's in the song, not the story, sorry
>
>
> --
> - "The doctor said give him jug band music; it seems to make him feel
> just fine!"
>