VLVL2 (9.5): "Bernard Herrmann"

Dave Monroe monrobotics at yahoo.com
Thu Dec 4 11:09:34 CST 2003


p. 187 "A Toyota in the treetops"  Is this a tip of
the hat to the boat in the tree in Marquez's famous
novel of magic realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude?

http://www.mindspring.com/~shadow88/chapter9.htm

--- Dave Monroe <monrobotics at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>    "Having crossed safety at last, they put out
> their running lights, popped in the Bernard Herrmann
> cassette, and proceeded up the Shade Creek Valley
> road to that driving-through-the-night music from
> Psycho (1960), till they found the orchard and, with
> the help of spotlights, a Toyota in the treetops." 
> (VL, Ch. 9, p. 187)
> 
> "a Toyota in the treetops"
> 
> Cf. ...
> 
> http://imdb.com/title/tt0062480/

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