I'll come running to Thai your Balloon & Doc's a sky sawing Knight W/Talking backward
Joseph Tracy
brook7 at sover.net
Mon Nov 16 22:23:24 CST 2009
I like that thought. I can see a touch of Hamlet here, though the
Danish Prince is more alone than Doc, but the stench and the seeming
inability to reach the ears of the higher powers make it hard not to
feel unhinged and alone. Maybe that is Hamlet's greatest flaw, to try
to adjust the balance alone.
On Nov 16, 2009, at 10:20 PM, alice wellintown wrote:
> Why is Larry acting as if he just smoked Thai weed? Because he is
> going to smkoe some Thai weed?
> Why are the conversations in Chapter 15 backward? We've seen this in
> other chapters; we can't tell who is saying what.
> Why would P do that?
> It does remind us of Hamlet; that deeply flawed loose baggy
> cutting-room-floor paste-up play that begins with the guards crossing
> up their lines. The world has come unhindged and has rolled over.
> Vegas wheels of capitalism turning and stinking from nyc to denmark.
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