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[Joseph Tracy]

On Nov 19, 2009, at 10:55 PM, Michael Bailey wrote:

> 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)
Yes this is what I'm saying.
>
>> Leonard Jermaine Loosemeat     aka ElDrano ( a reconfiguration of  
>> Leonard)
>
> oh yeah, nice catch
It made me wonder if he was cluing us to reaarange the rest of his  
name but I got nowhere with that
>
>> 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?
Interesting notion, and obviously this is a joint account, which is  
probably essentially hers. Be cool if anything else points in that  
direction.
This makes sense  to put Sloane at the center of the in home coup. I  
was earlier suggesting Riggs, but that doesn't hold up well. Sloane  
seems to fit the profile. But maybe she and Riggs were together and  
the reason he is terrified is that he is the only one who could  
implicate her. So that Riggs fears Wolfmann being turned to kill him  
by Sloane. We don't really know.
>
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