IVIV, Bigfoot on Doc's case

Tore Rye Andersen torerye at hotmail.com
Tue Sep 1 02:51:47 CDT 2009


Mark:
 
> And then there is this 'joke':
> 'Watch your head'
> 'Watch my....how'm I spoze to do that, man?"
[...]
> Din't work for me...lame one.
 
A lame joke, yes, but a lame joke which connects to important
themes in IV. An obvious answer to Doc's question would be "in
the mirror," and Doc does have a close relationship with mirrors.
Also, in his PCP trip on p. 318 he DOES watch his own head, as
he hallucinates his own double:
 
"WoW," Doc replies, "you look just like you do in th' mirror!"
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