IVIV When you wish upon a joint

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Reading Farewell, My Lovely.  PI Marlowe and Police Detective Russell have an adversarial relationship, but theirs a fair amount of professional respect mixed in.  One difference between them and the Doc/Bigfoot relationship is that Marlowe's not doing anything illegal.  Doc, on the other hand, smokes weed.  Bigfoot hassles him, occasionally pressures him, but never sets him up for any serious jail time.  That amounts to a certain amount of professional respect or friendship right there.

Laura

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>From: David Payne <dpayne1912 at hotmail.com>

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>On Fri, 4 Sep 2009 (16:44:25 -0700), Mark Kohut (markekohut at yahoo.com) wrote:
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>> Bigfoot apologizes....sort of....how does this reveal Bigfoot's softer qualities?.....Or his relationship to Doc....
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>Perhaps I misread, but I saw Bigfoot as absolute evil. Everytime I started to like the fellow, it turned out he was lying, for example at the end, trying to save Doc in order to set him up. 
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>My read was that he was playing Doc all along. Scared to do his own dirty work, risk his own neck, he set Doc up from really early on, sent Doc to do what should've been the police's job. Couldn't buy Doc off, so he set him up.
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>But for some reason, Doc seems to like Bigfoot. (c.f., Doc ribbing Bigfoot with "watch my head?" which was probably just supposed to make us think of Jefferson Airplane and chuckle.) I think that Doc just seems to fall for the wrong people, perhaps which is why this good natured fellow ended up carrying around a medical bag and threatening people while his girlfriend dumped him.
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>Anyhow Doc's liking of Bigfoot, was, I thought, what led to this sort of narrative sympathizing with Bigfoot. We like him because the narrator is so close to Doc; meanwhile, it turns out that Doc's been fooled by Bigfoot.
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>Should we, as some Plisters have suggested, like Bigfoot because he is eloquent?
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>On those grounds, shouldn't we like The Judge in Blood Meridian?
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