VLVL2(3): A Romance over the Years

[Tim Strzechowski]

>
> Sylvester and Tweety
>
> p. 22 "Sylvester and Tweety"    The famous animated
> cartoon characters (a cat and a canary, natch) are
> used to described the comic/violent relationship
> between Zoyd and Zuniga. This also works as effective
> shorthand to encourage the reader to read the book as
> a cartoon. At least for now.


Don't know about anyone else, but I always had a tough time figuring Tweety
to be a male or a female.  Something androgenous about that little bird, at
least to my childhood mind.  Anyways, it sort of parallels the Zoyd
character in the dress-wearing, playing-the-Mom role we examined earlier.