IVIV (11) 178-9

[Clément Lévy]

Meeting the police here.

Doc, riding on the passenger's seat, tries to control the car. Dr.  
Blatnoyd tries to fool the policeman, building up a sister-giving- 
birth-at-the-hospital-story.

Finally, Doc goes behind the wheel, and gets some info about the  
reason why the police are looking at everybody's ID: "Cultwatch"  
sounds like "Baywatch:" another innocuous activity? No, as "every  
gathering of three or more civilians is now defined as a potential  
cult." The cop mentions three reasons why the company here could be a  
cult, including "references to the book of Revelation." As a matter  
of fact, Japonica, asking "are you the Great Beast" may have sounded  
a bit prophetical to the policeman's ear. See Book of Revelation,  
chapter 13, of which I am quoting here the first lines:
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out  
of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten  
crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.

2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet  
were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and  
the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.

3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his  
deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and  
they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is  
able to make war with him?

5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and  
blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two  
months.

6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his  
name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.

- So this was another mention of the Manson cult, and the  
investigations it provoked.

- "it'll go i some master data bank here and in Sacramento:" how  
computers will store everything from the early 1970s on.

- Note the castle (moat, dawbridge) in Bel Air. A mixture of Middle  
Ages and 20th century security practice (private guards, intercom).  
There's one on sale here, but without the moat:

http://www.marbellavillas.com/resale-details.aspx?id=R86160

Another example of "L.A. tradition of architectural whimsy" (168)