Re: IVIV: chapter seven—Eel Trovatore

[Joseph Tracy]

On Sep 23, 2009, at 11:22 AM, Ray Easton wrote:

> Mark Kohut wrote:
>> hey, she IS a verbally snappy waitress putting down just about All  
>> the food?
>
> Well, no, she is not.  She clearly is *supposed* to be such, but  
> she is not.  And that's one the reasons that this is bad writing.
>
> Ray

What do you mean she is not;  what is she? I think Robin nails it,  
not just snappy, but acidic. The Toxic sounding seafood in Jungian  
terms might stand for questionable shit from the unconscious, a  
prelude to a real acid immersion in the unconscious with Leej and  
Vehi. But in Jungian though eating something implies internalizing  
and coping.  Foreshadowing?, contrast? maybe a bit of both, but this  
meal  and the conversation deepens anxiety. Afterwards The Vehi  
acidic meal offers reinforcement of the concern for Shasta but also  
reassurance.

Is the LSD memory of another world from which Doc came and from which  
he derives his compactness and  a "density" that has him breaking  
through walls, a kind of reference to his ability to penetrate  
barriers to his investigations, and his focus on evidence and leads  
while smoking weed like a chimney.  The whole story  feels more  
Jungian than I first perceived but with a different set of collective  
memories, and while comic in tone, may be designed as a kind of  
alternative mythos of the detective story which will yield treasures  
to a probing search.

The shit about Flip, Lemuria, and the true board is really funny to  
me, but again smacks of arrangements of collective uncoscious not  
mapped by Jung but making a lot of sense in terms of alternative  
tribes, nations , historic patterns etc.   I know of a legendary  
Christian Surfer from the Arcata CA area respected by all the surf  
community which was instrumental in carefully documenting toxic  
effluent from a paper plant. The plant was closed and redesigned with  
strict standards despite all their grousing that they couldn't afford  
it.

I hope the Coen brothers take an interest, this is really their terrain.