Turier: Grigori & Katje

[Dave Monroe]

Cf. Masami Teraoka, "Sarah and Octopus/Seventh Heaven"
(2001), though maybe not at work et al. ...

http://www.lava.net/~artbeat/prints.html



See as well yr "naughty tentacle" movies , e.g., ...

http://www.tentacle-hentai.com/

Urotsukidoji (1989) would be a well-known, readily
avaliable and at least semi-respectable example ...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108461/

Not to mention the La Blue Girl series (anime and
live-action).  See, e.g., ...

http://www.answers.com/topic/tentacle-rape

http://www.the-emperor.org/wiki/tentacle_porn/

Buckley, Sandra.  "Penguin in Bondage:
   A Tale of Japanese Comic Books."  Technoculture.
   Ed. Constance Penley and Andrew Ross.
   Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1991.  163-95

McCarthy, Helen and Jonathan Clemens.
   The Erotic Anime Movie Guide.  New York:
   Overlook Press, 1991.

Napier, Susan.  Anime: From Akira to Princess
   Mononoke.  New York: Palgrave, 2001.

And here's a revealing interview with Toshio Maeda,
who created the Urotsukidoji manga series ...

http://www.bigempire.com/sake/manga1.html

Not like I'd know about all this, of course ...

--- jbor at bigpond.com wrote:

> 'Dream of the Fisherman's Wife' by Hokusai (c. 1820)
> 
> http://www.jahsonic.com/Hokusai.html (scroll down
> for image and links)
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_of_the_Fisherman%27s_Wife
> 
> (Links also posted late last year by Joe.)
> 
> best
> 
> On 17/08/2005, at 7:06 AM, jbor at bigpond.com wrote:
> 
> > Nice little 1992 essay which examines the
> influences of both the 
> > tradition of Japanese erotica known as "tentacle
> rape" and British 
> > research into arthropod brain functioning in the
> '50s and '60s on 
> > Pynchon's representation of the scene with Katje
> and Grigori in GR 
> > (pdf available):
> >
> > 'Pynchon's _Gravity's Rainbow_'
> > by Christine Turier, _Explicator_ 50.4, Summer
> 1992, pp. 244-6.	
> > Abstract: Makes observations concerning the
> bizarreness of the image 
> > of the octopus Grigori's attack on Katje in Thomas
> Pynchon's novel 
> > _Gravity's Rainbow_. The eroticism implied in this
> scene; speculation 
> > as to whether Katje is truly afraid or she is
> knowing and willing 
> > participant in the attack; additional points of
> literary evidence.

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