IVing IV, a touching touch

[alice wellintown]

As if Penny is an empty vessel that must be filled with a male's love
or whatever? Penny don't need no Doctor; she's a healthy gal. When
Penny touches Doc, she communicates something that has nothing to do
with traditional marriage, but with business; it's professional.

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> p. 278 "She touched his hand, as if she did it so seldom she wasn't sure of how."
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> Touch, remember a few places in GR, especially in that ending, when a simple human touch was an unparodied value in TRPs vision.
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> Reprised here, the most 'touching' moment in the relationship of Doc
> and Penny......more touching than the sex, of course, which is just sex.
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> Penny says that if she could believe....and Doc finishes 'that I could protect you'....that old-fashioned man-woman dynamic for permanance/marriage??..............
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> that hippie Doc cannot fulfill.
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