VLVL2 (15): Roscoe

dedalus204 at comcast.net dedalus204 at comcast.net
Fri May 28 08:35:56 CDT 2004


376.3:  "Roscoe in his time had done a heckuva lot worse than abduct kids.  He imagined himself grown oversize, beastlike, scuffling along beside a more human-faced Brock Vond.  'Her tits, Master --'

'Nice firm adolescent tits, Roscoe, tits like juicy apples.' "



The name "Roscoe" is Scandinavian for "deer forest" (note again the foliage motif).


The above exchange, of course, suggests the doctor/assistant relationship of Victor Frankenstein and Igor:

http://org.chem.msu.su/~baskin/igor.html

http://members.aon.at/frankenstein/frankenstein-seventies2.htm





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