hi all - long time reader, first time poster. thanks for months of interesting comment and analysis!
i'm wondering what people make of the (explicit) mention by donovan in the 'wild night' article of ford and lisi disappearing off to a small room alone. donovan's not in the habit of adding unnecessary detail, or of talking nonsense.
my two thoughts were:
1) some kind of drug that's way, way over the top - really, shooting heroin's my only guess here, or
2) illicit love affair.
it's just odd to me that those two would be halfway through a totally depraved scene in the basement - drinking, smoking joints, fighting, "offering" renata to his friends. . . and but there's something that they must have privacy for?
anyway, thanks again for all the great reading!