IVIV Hope Harlingen: a wacky theory (possible spoilers)

[Richard Fiero]

alice wellintown wrote:
>  ...I'm not here AA or NA sponser and it's Larry who will have to
>put up with the reambling rationalizations and paranoia.

The regimens of NA and AA involve rigorous honesty, something that 
Alice might note and even employ from time to time.  Here we are 
thrown the uninformed man-in-the-street opinions we see so much of 
from this P-lister when likely to cause a stir.

>Juicegirl has her juice, Hope and Larry have their coffee. The kid is
>waiting, we might say, hoping for, a story from a grown-up. Are there
>any grown-ups in the room?

It's okay for the adults to act like adults.

>Next, we get a stream of Larry's thoughts, thoughts that are a
>response to Hope's question about Coy and Shasta and Larry, thought
>about his business: "kindness without a pricetag cam ealong only
>rarely, and when it did usually it was too precious to accept, being
>too easy, for Doc anyway, to abuse, which he was bound to."
>
>Larry's view is that he needed to take care of business but he failed
>to. p.40 Is that why Shasta is in the mess she's in?

Larry has only an average amount of guilt.

>  She's an adult.
>She's free to Fall same as Adam, Eve, Larry, Hope. She's mot a child.

I think we are mixing transformation quest metaphors here by using 
the man-in-the-street version of the Fall. Recall that the sin of 
Adam and Eve was to gain the knowledge of good and evil thereby 
splitting up the world into opposites. They (we) are prevented from 
returning to a natural state by a shining and world-dividing sword of 
intelligence. Sportello is a medicated and ecstatic hero.  Perhaps think fog.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth
Apotheosis
When someone dies a physical death, or dies to the self to live in 
spirit, he or she moves beyond the pairs of opposites to a state of 
divine knowledge, love, compassion and bliss. A more mundane way of 
looking at this step is that it is a period of rest, peace and 
fulfillment before the hero begins the return.

>And, what is that **Business" exactly?
>
>Is it Mankind?

No, it's just Shasta but we can read honesty as a subtext.

>Juicegirl, realizing that these grown-ups are not telling a story, at
>least not one that is "her idea of entertainment,"  climbs off the
>couch and heads for her kind of entertainment---The TUBE.
>
>Read her a story, Hope. Engage the kid a bit. Juice and Tube is all
>the kid gets so off to the Tube she goes. Her form of etertainment is
>not made for kids. Mightmouse, although marketed to children from
>1955-1966 is about as violent as the Tube can get.

Oh good grief, not politically correct enough?  Recall that the human 
mind loves to decode and loves games.  TV watching is not an entirely 
passive activity.  The brain has to reassemble the sketch from a 
bunch of dots and a raster scan.

Earlier alice wellintown wrote:
>The Summer of Our Discontent
>Town-hall brawls. Tomato blight. Woodstock nostalgia. Rain. Not hiking
>the Appalachian Trail. Joe Queenan says good riddance to the summer of
>'09.

The WSJ is okay with business but otherwise it is crap and it is now 
Murdoch crap. Another chest-beating penis-envying teenager:
>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204731804574391143289432918.html