IVIV: Handoff
Robin Landseadel
robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Mon Sep 21 09:52:04 CDT 2009
NICK
All right, Nancy. Go on with your story. Start with your dreadful
secret.
NANCY
Oh, Nick. I can't, I can't. I'm so confused.
NICK
Why don't you just hold your thumb next to your lines, see like
this. Look, (page turn) this way I don't get confused and I never
lose my place.
I'd like to thank the Bailey Boys for their work on chapter six and
note that if they have additional notes and comments on pages 80—88 to
go for it.
Chapter four, by virtue of cluing us in to Arpanet, signals us to the
larger CIA/Black Ops presence in IV. Chapter five sent us into
Noirland, with Doc picking up various clues [and Luz] at the Wolfmann
estate. We find out that Micky Wolfmann was involved at the planning
stages of the Chryskylodon Institute, tying Wolfmann with the Golden
Fang.
Another interesting bit of info in chapter five is that Bigfoot
appears to have been put on some sort of a leash, riding in tandem
with a cop that Doc hasn't run into before and who Doc suspects is
there to monitor Bigfoot. Doc figures out this has to do with the
mysterious disappearance of Bigfoot's old partner.
Chapter six in large part is pointing to Golden Triangle Heroin
operations in the the early seventies. In Chapter seven we will see a
high level of CIA involvement with the Golden Triangle operations
leading us to the ship The Golden Fang and its long history of counter-
subversive activities, affording us a short history of CIA activities
up to and including the early seventies. We also get yet another
window into the exciting world of LSD including a harrowing bit of
prognostication on climate change courtesy of Tiny Tim.
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