IVIV Doc goes to find Wolfmann
Richard Fiero
rfiero at gmail.com
Tue Sep 1 13:28:34 CDT 2009
John Carvill wrote:
> > I think, John, I see Bigfoot more unambiguously than you do,
> though. Others?
>
>Ok, well, lets have more on this. I read IV once, in a few sessions,
>over a few days. My second read was much more disjointed. So overall,
>I still don't have much of a satisfactory handle on Bigfoot. I just
>thought he was highly ambiguous. He's meant to be Doc's nemesis, but
>he doesn't seem to do much, er, nemesising. Unless, as suggested, he
>is covertly steering Doc around. Even so, he also doesn't seem to live
>up to our expectations of him as a fascist brute. And, maybe mist
>strikingly, he shaw talks perty, n'est pas? Aren't most dumb
>hippy-hating cops meant to be somewhat less articulate than ol'
>Bigfoot?
With every little arrest these days worth a minimum of $1500
distributed among the personnel, we're talking better take-home pay.
Bigfoot's farm yields career and bucks out of hippy tending. It makes
sense and some fun dialog.
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