MDDM Ch. 8 MDDM Mangoes

[JL]

terrance (snipped):
 >I don't read this as simple blasphemy. Certainly in one sense
 >his mocking the Host reminds us of Buck Mulligan at the opening
 >of Joyce's Ulysses--a blasphemous parody of the Roman Catholic
 >sacrifice/sacrament/rite. I read this as an offering [...]

actually, it reminds me of the wise old monkey at the opening
of Disney's _The Lion King_.

JL