IVIV page 130

[Michael Bailey]

...trying to find page 130, I stumbled upon this passage on page 58:
"Sloane made with the half-frown, half-smirk Doc had noticed among
minor- and ex-showbiz people trying to be modest.  "My lurid youth.
I was one of those notorious Vegas showgirls, working at one of the casinos.
Up onstage in those days, with the lights, the eyelashes, all the makeup,
we did look fairly much alike, but Michael, something of a connoisseur
in these matters as I was later to learn, said that he picked me out
the minute I walked on, and after that I was really the only one he
could see.  Romantic isn't it, yes, certainly unexpected - next thing
either of us knew, we were down at the Little Church of the West, and I
had this on my finger," flashing a gigantic marquise-cut diamond up
in the double digits someplace with respect to carats.
  She had told the story hundreds of times, but that was all right.
"Handsome stone," Doc said.

http://www.littlechurchlv.com/

so, yes, there's an echo of the meeting of Doc's parents, at least
in the "love-at-first-sight" aspect, there's the suggestion that Sloane
still believes in the marriage, there's the hint of a back story in
how this English rose came to Las Vegas, and also another
character in a different drama springs to mind, _The Riches_, where
the real estate magnate takes a few days off to clear his head,
and comes back from Vegas married...

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that seemed like an interesting point yesterday, and
I'm leaving it in for the link - that's a nice chapel!
Also, does Doc mean it when he calls her "one brave
little lady" on page 65?  Hmmm, yes.  I think so.
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okay, I have to look at a key passage, but I want to
blend it in with something:
"Was it possible, that at every gathering - concert, peace rally,
love-in, be-in, and freak-in, here, up north, back East, wherever -
those dark crews had been busy all along, reclaiming the music,
the resistance to power, the sexual desire from epic to everyday,
all they could sweep up, for the ancient forces of greed and fear?"

Let's examine a little embedded list:

these are somewhat the elements of the Mickey rhizome as well:
music - Riggs's warbling (for the nonce, taking that at face value)
sexual desire - Mickey's contagious concupiscence
resistance to power  -  Mickey's plan to "get the money flowing another way"

do these things go together?  not necessarily.
when put together they attract enforcers, or is it perhaps
the resistance to power that attracts the enforcers and
messes up the other things?
Or, do some types of music and sexual desire breed best in an atmosphere
of freedom, which (might be) incompatible with what might
called "freedom of power" - the freedom of the authorities to
expect conformity?  Or is that paranoid?

to take a slightly different tack, are all those things
necessarily good?  Or, if they are (and I'm not saying they
aren't), do they form a stable cluster that can be built on?


night cricket didn't start till the late '70s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day/Night_cricket_in_England

I really appreciate the comments people have been adding.

News to me were the Boards/Byrds notion and the Warbling/War Bling dichotomy
(not to mention Riggs Bank, I can add that to Brown Brothers Harriman and
Nugan Hand and the Vatican Bank and BCCI - had never heard
of Riggs before)

"Spotted Dick T-shirts..."  etc etc etc
There really is all that merch, I kind of wonder about it
sometimes, but you know, there is a really nice blanket
on bobdylan.com in the store that I've had my eye on.

"Spotted Dick are also known to be into some weird forms
of recreation" - possibly not night cricket...

George Formby, Jr.'s "Leaning on a Lamp Post,"
was the song Herman's Hermits covered.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxqxJlu2-aw

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