VV(11): A True Windup Boy ...

[Dave Monroe]

"Soon there came the hurried and sexy tap of high heels in the corridor
outside.  As if magnetized his head swiveled around and he saw coming in
the door a tiny girl, lifted up  to all of 5' 1" by her heels.  Oboy,
oboy, he thought: good stuff." (V., Ch. 8, Sec. 1., p. 216)

Of course, Benny is a bit wound up here as well.  As a yo-yo would be
... and he's also a bit mechanical, "magnetized," mesmerized, perhaps. 
See ...

Darnton, Robert.  Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment
   in France.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1968.

Winter, Alison.  Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in
   Victorian Britain.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1998.

Hm.  I don't see, however, that my just previous "True Windup Girl" post
has gone through yet.  I don't THINK it was too large, but ... well,
will edit, repost, if need be ...