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[Mark Kohut]

Sometimes, lifelong extended conceits---like 'being shopped' and 'spying'--
all come from a basic human value TRP cherishes that gets broken badly.

We can see how world-famous TRP has still kept in touch with his oldest friends and teachers, etc. 

When the bond of friendship, loyalty, is betrayed---is where 'being shopped' and being spied on---what does a person who betrays you do? He reports on your behavior beyond you, without telling you. Your privacy (re your own acts and words) has been violated.

You've been shopped.





> 
> 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
> >
> 
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