did you say he's out selling phiz on a sunday?

[Lucky Pierre]

the limerick's, admitted, a verse form:
  a terse form: a curse form: a hearse form. 
  it may not be lyric
  and at best it's Satyric, 
  and a whale of a tail in perverse form. 
  for what is the limerick's true physiognomy?
  dactyl or anapest, which can it be? 
  merciful god how the dactyl treads heavily
  while the anapest gallops with glee

A whale of a tale of whale wailing and tailing. 


"Physiognomy, like every other human science, is but a
passing fable. If then,
  Sir William Jones, who read in thirty languages,
could not read the simplest
  peasant's face in its profounder and more subtle
meanings, how may unlettered
  Ishmael hope to read the awful Chaldee of the Sperm
Whale's brow? I put that
  brow before you. Read it if you can."

The Prairie is ch. 79 of Moby-Dick



Wonder if Brock Vond ever read it. Zoyd in Jail? 
Brock was a student of that head measuring mad doctor.
What was his name? 
His index? 

Nope, don't wanta go there. Don't eve go there. Losss
of sinosense (that's chinese for cherry).  

Selling head on a sunday. Yup that what Q is doing
while his soon to be wife is tossing about in their
honeymoon bed. Moreover, the head market is not very
good because their are too many heads out there in the
streets and Q's head is broken. 

The author V. certainly did. 

a kool book, with very kool prictures and diagrams and
stuff, heads and faces and other cool things. 

http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/6854.html

The good doctor of V. 

He is indeed another of P's mad-scientists, complete,
as you
  say so wonderfully, with his cynical and salacious
assistant
  Trench. Trench, what a great name, Trench, another
JD, we
  are sick is what the boys say in West Side Story and
it's
  what the crew will say too, we are sick, wonder if
the good
  doctor gave him that name?, Trench,  who, when not
assisting
  or playing the voyeur (boy P is fun when you can
accept what
  he's up to, his use of sexual perversity and the
like and
  not try to deconstruct it with relativistic
unmoralities)
  throws scalpels at a plaque given to the good doctor
by the
  United Jewish Appeal. Now I know that the term
"black humor"
  is no longer in use, but this is funny stuff and
black too,
  kinda like naming Rachel Owl-galss's  father
Stuyvesant, but
  I'll explain this anti-Semitic connection later,
here, in
  the fashionable maze of German town, far from the
fields of
  Poppies and the supplies and demands of war, the
good
  doctor, who worked so hard, eventually managing to
finish
  Med. school by working as a mechanic and for a
bootlegger in
  Decatur (I bet our new Secretary of State knows who
Decatur
  was), has gone over to the bad side, it was so
subtle even
  Profane, usually sensitive that way, probably
wouldn't have
  noticed, but for us, it's clear, it began as you
say, David,
  with Love, but the boy, who had joined the war so
young,
  lied about his age, changed his own name, was
affected so by
  the loss of the men he adored, he emulated,
idolized,
  internalized narcissistically. The face. He
developed a
  fixation or a strong attachment to their brave
flights into
  the clouds, their noble flights like Icarus, and
loss,
  death, so noble still, in the air not in the Trench,
  manifested a state of Limbo (oh that Limbo state
again) when
  the man he Loved, Godolphin crashed to the ground,
his face
  cracked. The good doctor's obsession with the
physiognomy of
  flying men crashed to the ground, he assumed a state
of
  Limbo and swung over to the opposite side, Hate,
hate  for
  the Holy and unnatural Halidoms of his own calling.
He would
  find no reasonable middle ground, no golden mean
only a
  cultural harmony rationalized, an ideal established
by
  movies, advertisements, magazine illustrations.
Remember
  that when Rachel goes to pay the good doctor she
blows a
  halo of smoke, she is a good angel, but here the
good doctor
  is surrounded by the halo cast by his equipment. She
argues
  with him about the soul. The inside & outside.
Later, he
  will reveal his Platonism when Esther refuses to be
a
  duplicate, like his assistant Irving. And will the
good doctor
  pay for Esther's delinquency? Her abortion? No, and
Rachel won't either,
  maybe that's why she pays for Esther's nose job?
Rachel had an abortion and 
she regrets it. Maybe that's why she takes on all this
delinquent and juvenile
dependents? 



http://www.icp.org/exhibitions/eugenics/index.html





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