IV "Ya gonna eat dis toikey"..J. Garfield in

Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 26 18:24:06 CST 2009


He Ran All the Way (1951) page 254, Inherent Vice.

On this Thanksgiving Day in America, I want to just point
at the two pages that end Chapter 14; point at how they
may be capturing some aspects---some foreshadowing---of 
the very end of the book.........and, again, other lifelong themes?

with the addition of Doc, sleepless, sweat-freezing, as if "somehow seeing
John Garfield die for real.....with the whole respectable middle
class standing there in the street smugly watching him..." 

Doc dreams of climbing a 'more-than-geographical ridgeline"......
into new terrain........some great definitive slope......

I found them almost as poignant as the very end of the book, and perhaps even sadder. 







      



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