IVIV Doc goes to find Wolfmann

[John Bailey]

“What about Doc Sportello, he did pot all the time, man, it helped him
solve cases.”
“Yeah but he… was not real?”
“What. Doc Sportello was –“
“He’s a made up character in a story, p-list.”
“Wh – Naw. No, he’s real. He lives at this real address in Gordita
Beach. Well, maybe not anymore, it was years ago, he has to be dead by
now.”


On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Richard Fiero<rfiero at gmail.com> wrote:
> alice wellintown wrote:
>>
>> Why? What motivates Larry's quest
>
> Okay, we are spectators of a piece of art. In a quick McLuhanish way, a
> story was in the mouth and in the ears. Then with printing, the story was in
> a book.  With movies, the book was in the movie and the story was within the
> book.  With TV the movie is in the TV and so on.  Now why does it bring us
> pleasure to witness a quest for transformation?  Does it give us a kind of
> rebirth to oppose the inevitable pointlessness and stupidity of our own
> deaths?  Alice has left hubris and catharsis far behind.  Good news!  Carry
> on.
>