IV Killing Puck

[alice wellintown]

I'ts more dialectic than debate; more conversation than argument. We
can discard the word "partner" if that helps us to improve our reading
of the relationship.

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:50 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> You'll notice that rj never said anything about "fair."  He said, "I
> also don't believe it's correct to call Doc and Bigfoot 'partners.'"
> They aren't partners, period.  Each is looking out for his own
> interests, and no one is getting paid anything for what they are able
> to learn from each other.  If you want to call them
> "partners," then the whole wide world is one big partnership.  And,
> yes, I'm aware of P's daisey-chain obsession.
>
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:46 PM, alice wellintown
> <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Partnerships and alliances are rarely if ever equatable or fair in P's fictions or in America.
>>
>>> I also don't believe it's correct to call Doc and Bigfoot 'partners' ... exactly. Doc doesn't know about Adrian or Indelicato until Puck tells him. Bigfoot has set up Doc here, and he sets him up again with the 20 kilos
>