Word: molar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brief: Dr. Tom More, a psychologist/jailbird on parole for selling drugs, stumbles across a scheme to improve behavior patterns in Feliciana parish. His colleagues have spiked the water-supply with "molar sodium 24," a chemical substance that causes women to lose their sexual inhibitions (they present themselves rearward like primates), heightens children's school performances (verbal and mathematical scores rocket), and even helps to hone More's wife's tournament Bridge game: "This lady knows where the cards are. I don't know how she knows but she knows. I don't think she knows she knows either...
PERCY HAS a computer in his head, apparently. More unfolds the water-supply plot with the symmetry and cunning of a Creole Hercule Poirot. But agents more intimidating than Bionic Bridge players lie at the end of the molar-mystery. More discovers a kiddie-porn racket which Percy depicts too graphically for my taste...
...idea, of course, is that molar sodium 24 has zonked out both pedophiliac and pedophiliee to such a degree that they have become numb, orgiastically numb, to the horror of their situation...
...twelve costumes he dons to amuse young patients. At Christmas he may be dressed as Santa Claus, and around July 4 as Uncle Sam. Schmidt drives to and from work in a vehicle that he calls a "Plaquemobile," a white Volkswagen topped by a king-size Styrofoam molar...