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[Michael Bailey]

I'd be interested to see where you go with the zombies.
Could it be something the author noted about the time of IV, and
developed into Thanatoids over the
next few years?  The surrender of, or failure to develop, individual
will, in the groupies, the dopers, the tube addicts,
the Manson Family and so forth - just a heightening of a natural human
Zombie tendency?

>  We hire cops because
> we want some calm deliberative, well equipped people dealing with
> sociopathic violence or criminality, and it doesn't have to be a fearful,
> repressive force.

right on.  there's the potential for it to be, but to maintain one's
freakishnes and still deal in a friendly way with
the coppers, as Doc does, helps defuse it (to the extent that it can be)

 ("it's a proper crop of propaganda that a policeman can't find love" - AtD)

> Leonard Jermaine Loosemeat     aka ElDrano ( a reconfiguration of Leonard)

oh yeah, nice catch

> move ahead 3 pages (266)to the check  from Arbolada Savings and Loan in Ojai
> that El Drano was getting before he was killed.  I still haven't connected
> the dots to Mickey and why he is paying Loosemeat.
> Anyone? Was he troubled about Coy and ready as Doc asks himself "...to go
> confess to somebody? Who wouldn't have wanted him to do that?" Is L Jermaine
> L indeed  germane to the plot?
>

Good question.
Here's a speculation: Arbolada is the bank that Sloane chose for Doc
to "re-deposit" the fictitious
check in.  Possibly that one, among Mickey's accounts, is a joint
account that she can access?
So she and her factoti and/or myrmidons may be the payors, rather than
Mickey himself?


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