IV "Ya gonna eat dis toikey"..J. Garfield in

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Fri Nov 27 22:37:09 CST 2009


and Happy Thanksgiving to you!

I was going about my business on turkey day and hadn't read this post
but just seen the header
and started laughing during dinner...and again in the evening...and
again at night...and again just now

Okay, in your honor I'm gonna buy an old cheap VHS of He Ran...it's
the darker kinda movie Marie likes...


On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> He Ran All the Way (1951) page 254, Inherent Vice.
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> On this Thanksgiving Day in America, I want to just point
> at the two pages that end Chapter 14; point at how they
> may be capturing some aspects---some foreshadowing---of
> the very end of the book.........and, again, other lifelong themes?
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> with the addition of Doc, sleepless, sweat-freezing, as if "somehow seeing
> John Garfield die for real.....with the whole respectable middle
> class standing there in the street smugly watching him..."
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> Doc dreams of climbing a 'more-than-geographical ridgeline"......
> into new terrain........some great definitive slope......
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> I found them almost as poignant as the very end of the book, and perhaps even sadder.
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