Pynchon: The Simpsons Episode

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, joeallonby wrote:
> on 1/27/04 4:19 PM, davemarc at davemarc at panix.com wrote:
> > Hey--I see that he's missing a finger on each hand. Maybe that accounts for
> > the lag between novels.

> > d., the student of cartoon anatomy

> All Simpsons characters are shy a digit.


I recall bumping into a Freudian interpretation of Donald
Duck, one of the points being that the four-fingeredness
of cartoon characters betrays castration anxiety. Neat.


HR