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

[Mark Wright AIA]

> Howdy
> 
> Perhaps this iz why he doesn't seem to recognize Rachel at first --
> he
> is responding as a mechanism to pre-programmed input stimuli that are
> all object and no subject. I've done much the same thing myself, on
> occasion.
> 
> Back to the lurk pool...
> Mark
> 
> 
> --- Dave Monroe <monroe at mpm.edu> wrote:
> > "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 ...
> 
> 
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