IVing IV, a touching touch

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Mon Nov 30 11:54:01 CST 2009


found it!
Mark Kohut wrote:
> p. 278 "She touched his hand, as if she did it so seldom she wasn't sure of how."
>
> Touch, remember a few places in GR, especially in that ending, when a simple human touch was an unparodied value in TRPs vision.
>
> Reprised here, the most 'touching' moment in the relationship of Doc
> and Penny......more touching than the sex, of course, which is just sex.
>
> Penny says that if she could believe....and Doc finishes 'that I could protect you'....that old-fashioned man-woman dynamic for permanance/marriage??..............
>
> that hippie Doc cannot fulfill.


hmmm...what would be cool is a Sportello series...where maybe
without losing his laid-back nature he still finds a way to hook up
with Penny (over say 6 adventures)


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