IV 15 p256 reprogramming the cash flow

[Joseph Tracy]

On Nov 18, 2009, at 8:14 PM, Richard Fiero wrote:


> Michael Bailey wrote:
>
>> Shasta grew up with Doc, didn't she?  Certainly plenty of time
>> to be turned by one organization or another in Hollywood -
>> for all I know there's a big recruiting station there like Yale -
>> but as a sentimental reader I was more inclined to be struck by
>> the fact of how she didn't share the details of her escape to a rapt
>> Doc and immediately begin conspiring with him to some end or other...
>> Tommy and Tuppence sort of thing...
>> pointing up Doc's loneliness, or unconnectedness, at least with her,
>> and his solitary nature.  Is it him, or is it her?
>>
>> "She had become like they are" - Don't Fear the Reaper
>>
>
> Like Alice said, "It's about work."
> Doc's truly only connected to cops and the cop POV.  Penny,  
> Bigfoot, Shasta. They all use him -- because he can do the job. He  
> loves it. No more bottom-feeding repo man.
>

I find Doc's POV to be fundamentally different and often antagonistic  
to the Cops. First & foremost he is under no chain of command and it  
seems he has moved into a place where he is not tied to any  
paymaster. His sympathies are different, as concerned about Charlock  
as a Sharon Tate type. As far as using people , Doc is using the 3  
you mention as much as they use him. He accepts the karmic  
arrangement as part of his life. Also he is not restricted as to what  
he will find out in terms of political correctness and who did what..

Am I saying Doc is a hero? Not exactly, when the time comes he cuts a  
deal  rather than tilt at impregnable walls. But he seems to  
represent the spirit of genuine inquiry, search for small t truth,  
and karmic justice. He is also a talented liar, willing to bash in a  
killers brains, borders on the sexually predacious and is probably  
doing a lot of second-hand smoke damage, but hey, he's a private  
dick, waddayaspeck?