GRGR(28): Bette Davis and Margaret Dumont

[Jeremy Osner]

David Morris wrote:

> I gotta agree w/ Paul, here.  B.D. & M.D. represent the PROPER.  That awful
> buzzing sound (is it a kazoo?) is the intrusion of the IMPROPER into their
> world, and Slothrop's dream.

But what does it mean for MD to cut BD dead with "it *sounds*... like a kazoo"?
-- that was what (besides my film-watching adolescent ideas) mainly determined
my response to the passage.