IVIV page 152
Michael Bailey
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Sun Oct 4 00:49:44 CDT 2009
So Doc and Boris are talking, someplace described on an earlier page
that we'll catch in a minute...
we learn that:
Bigfoot not only appeared in ads for Wolfmann's development (Channel
View Estates, pg 9),
but also at Mickey's house.
Was he warning Mickey, as Boris first implies, or did Bjornsen have a
thing for Sloane, Mickey's wife,
as Boris opines after Doc identifies him?
Boris also seems to have been closer to the abduction scene than he at
first admitted:
"Okay, okay, I did drop by for a second" - to pick up some bubble
bath for his fiancee Dawnette -
either the massage parlor has a counter behind which these things are
sold or Boris
is such a frequent habitue that he can just appropriate some, or he's
making it up and actually
was there the whole time, maybe even was the guy who knocked out Doc!
[speculative]
Doc lets Boris save his (Doc's) face by accusing him (Doc) of being
with his (Boris's) fiance,
when it's obvious that what is sinking in is that Boris might've (only
Boris knows for sure)
authored the head-clout but owed Clancy a favor and was honestly
trying to be helpful.
Doc is spaced enough not to feel the need to retaliate and Boris is
cool enough to
crank down his window and tell Clancy "This guy is freaking me
out...where do you find such
heavy-duty hombres" when Clancy appears with "her new friend Aubrey"
on his "Harley road machine",
which apparently signals the end of the interview, or else Doc
and Boris sit there all night, or short term memory loss or The
Rapture strikes - further deponent saith not...
--
"Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the
revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world
declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism." -
Martin Luther King
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