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| "It is, however, generally understood that a party has a pathology, that it is a kind of an individual and that it is likely to be a very perverse individual. And it is also generally understood that a party hardly ever goes the way it is planned or intended" (Steinbeck 168). Photo of the wall in the back room of Doc's lab today. Note the picture of Charlie Chaplin--he and John Steinbeck were good friends (a friendship I assume extended to Ricketts?). Also, in front of the green lamp is a photo of Ed Ricketts (Doc). |
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| A close up of the liquor selection at Doc's lab... "Early Times" must be "Old Tennis Shoes?" |
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| Doc's "playlist" is something very interesting to me... Mack takes over the phonograph duties at one point and puts on "Benny Goodman's trios," and then Dora asks Doc to "play some of that nice music." Doc responds by playing Ardo and the Amor by Monteverdi and then leads a passionate partial reading of the poem Black Marigolds. |
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| A photo of the collage on one of the walls in Doc's laboratory... if this doesn't embody the frenetic quality of a good party I don't know what does... Benny Goodman, Monteverdi (Amor and Ardo), Black Marigolds (a reading) (Link to music / reading) |
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