ATDTDA (5): The American Corporation

[rich]

funny but Coover describes Cinecity, the porn metropolis in Adventures
of Lucky Pierre, in similar terms as a weeping widow, a cruel bitch,
among other things

Rich

On 4/2/07, Paul Nightingale <isread at btopenworld.com> wrote:
> Cf the personification of the city as a "weeping widow" etc, "developing
> into the meanest, cruellest bitch of a city ..." (153-154). In particular,
> note the consequences of "that terrible all-night rape, when 'he' was forced
> to submit, surrendering, inadmissibly, blindly feminine, into the Hellfire
> embrace of 'her' beloved". The Empire strikes back: the creature's 'arrival'
> replicates the arrival of the exhibits, so-called, put on display (then
> abandoned) at the Chicago Fair.
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