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[alice wellintown]

Felix Mitchell & Mickey Moore & Patty Hearst & Panthers and Paul is
Dead . . . Coy is Dead.

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> start of the page ol' Doc is more worried about Penny than pissed.
> That she would shop him (there's that word again, prominent in the
> Cyprian sections of AtD)
> to the Federales...
>
> (reaching back to page 72-3, ol' Doc has seen some Federales already, enough
> to discern a "force-field of contempt" around them for
> Californians...perhaps their version
> of "surrounding [themselves] with white light"...so I think we are to
> take it that he
> isn't marrow-terrified of them, although his courage is bolstered by
> plenty of weed of course...
> but one thing I think detective stories in general do, is "quiz the
> custard" which is a phrase
> from a detective novel called The Steam Pig, I think, and is the
> hero's version of
> "quis custodiet ipsos custodes?")
>
> so he seizes on his own preferred linkage to follow (in his own way,
> like the FBI,
> he has certain usual suspects although one likes to think he is a bit
> more flexible
> in his thinkingnd...)
>
> But now the section on reports of missing Mickey.
> The first thing I thought was Elvis, of course.  I guess, Jimmy Hoffa, right...
> looking for similar popular missing persons...
> John Galt?  Judge Crater?  Ambrose Bierce?
>
> Missing real estate developer?  tryna think of anything at all like that
> being in the news.
> a) we get a little snapshot somewhere of the type of stuff he's been
> building and repenting of
> b) what it makes me think of is that guy who made a billion or two
> building houses with carports instead of garages, and no basements,
> and probably other decadences, but this linkage isn't explicit in the
> text
> c) there is a mythic aspect to him
>
> Harley Earl Impala, which Jade and Bambi gallop away in, but not
> without having left him
> a flyer and a note, is apparently a classy ride:
> http://www.xpress.se/%7Eanok0014/
>
>
>
> --
> "Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the
> revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world
> declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism." -
> Martin Luther King
>