IVIV 'sleeping at the scene of a major crime" p.25

Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 1 10:20:27 CDT 2009


A funny scene, I laughed despite/ because of the unbelievablity of sleeping through such. Although I think I got flashes of similar scenes---crashing through the skylight in movies I can't remember. 

TRP gets the laugh by having Doc stay asleep and Bigfoot's "dare I suggest 'unwilling'?---to furnish us any details?

This constant way TRP has Bigfoot indict first is a terrif effect in IV, I think....

VEry pretentiously, I will suggest, TRP embodies his lifelong emphasis on the corruption of power, the perversion of the assumption of innocence in civil society, the subversion of our natural "rights' as a citizen....
(My thots taking off from that good law journal article on Vineland and the law back a bit).


      



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