44 Here Comes Coy to Save the Motherland

[Michael Bailey]

 alice wellintown  wrote:

> know the measure of (Pirate's Bananas), some fortune, shine one like
> crazy diamonds. In IV and in VL,  the artist who crosses over to the
> political side, like Frenesi with her camera (the camera is a Gun, a
> phalic instrument of control and violence) may find his/her way back
> to the fold, but will pay a very dear price.

something like that, yeah

> Why did Coy need to turn
> to the people he did to get help? Why were there no options? There
> were options. Why didn't he exercise them?
>

His own weakness.

>> but it was what brought them together
>> in the first place.
>
> Why is there coming together positive? I don't see this.

ah, most of us like to see young people get together...
Doc senses something admirable in Hope cleaning herself
up for the baby...
the two of them do better together than they
were doing alone...

although Doc is sold on this, he's a softhearted type
indoctrinated in mating for life by his wine-bibbing parents.
The story also includes a cute couple totally in thrall to
the Golden Fang, later in the book, so as to cast at least
some doubt on the proceedings by their so easily fitting into
an evil system...

>
> He needed junk to see the light; he needed to fall into hell to
> realize what a nightmare Vietnam is, and what a nightmare he has made
> of his life? I can't buy that.

yes, that can't be the reason.  Something else that was in him
prior to dope and stayed with him?