VLVL(5) At the Movies and on the Tube

[Terrance]

> It's no question of better or worse but I got struck by the expression
> "inner feelings". Of course I've spent my time before the tube and went to
> the movies but I've never expressed my 'inner feelings' by a film quote.
> I've never said: I feel like Robert de Niro in "Taxi Driver", or Bruce
> Willis in "The Fifth Element". I once drove an old lady who said to me when
> I started the engine: "Energie" - which is what Kirk says in German before
> the Enterprise gets off into hyperspace.


But people say this sort of thing all the time. 

After reading Beckett, "I feel like Linus in the great Pumpkin Patch."   

When a surfing dude walks off and leaves his board in the sun, his
surfing dude friends look at it there on the beach,  Sex Wax shine
glaring, then at each other and say, in  ugly, frightening green old
woman's voice, "Im melting!"

Why am I feeling like Harry never Met Sally here? 


Pynchon didn't invent this sort of thing, it's older than Homer, but he
begins using it in the novel V. and WORKS  it in every novel.