IVIV (13) scene three synopsis

[Robin Landseadel]

On Nov 5, 2009, at 8:51 PM, John Bailey wrote:

> Ah, gotcha. I don't think that Mucho's Trillium offers much to talk
> about anyway. She's a barely mentioned character.

More like a refreshing new fragrance.

> I do think that both are quite romantic visions of an idealised woman,
> though, as least to Zoyd and Doc.

Where is "Alice" when you need him? I nearly slapped myself silly [er]  
while taking out the trash—"Puck"!
				Puck.

	Yet but three? Come one more;
	Two of both kinds make up four.
	Here she comes, curst and sad:
	Cupid is a knavish lad

	Thus to make poor females mad.

In addition to being a major Shakespearian figure in A Midsummer  
Night's Dream, Puck is also an Erisian force of the Earth specific to  
the British Isles, positioned somewhere betwixt a deity and an imp.

He also, of course, is a fairy.

One of my biggest take-aways from the Renaissance Faire was David  
Springhorn's staging of the dumb play from  A Midsummer Night's Dream  
in the style of the Three Stooges.

My other was all the bi and tri and quatra and instant couplings that  
ran rampant throughout the Ren Faire, circa 1970.

> Doc gets weirdly infatuated with Trillium and one of the last things
> he does in the novel is to hunt down her whereabouts on the net.

I think it's more like feeling responsible for a client Doc may have  
brought to harm's way. Recall that when Sparky finds the digital  
Hospital records it's noted that Trillium was admitted with a  
concussion, cuts, and bruises, and had a three night stay. Sounds like  
potentially lethal mayhem, if you ask me.

> I found it strange that a relatively minor character who only
> appears quite late assumes this sort of importance. Touch of the
> Cyprian Latewood, mayhaps.

Can't help but tie Trillium to the Ren Faire scene. All that careless  
coupling, all those unintended consequences—careless love, the  
visceral reality of "All You Need Is Love", "Free Love" and "Can't Buy  
Me Love."

If I may be allowed to go over the top for a moment—I'm sure it's far  
too late to talk about spoilers here—It's Doc who kills Puck. It's as  
if Doc is killing some essential and uncontrollable force of the  
earth. It also resolves the plot involving Mickey, by virtue of Doc  
icing the bastard who murdered Glen Charlock. In Typical Chandler  
fashion, the soiled knight's real quest is not a paying gig, but a  
personal one.

Frank Sinatra in the background is singing "But that was long ago."