261 -266

[Mark Kohut]

I am partial to this possible reading.....

--- On Thu, 11/19/09, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: 261 -266
> To: "P-list" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Thursday, November 19, 2009, 10:55 PM
> 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?
> 
> 
> -- 
> - "The whole point of life is to have a story" - Jeremy
> Cioara
>