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[John Bailey]

This could be a gag about how reviews conceal, rather than reveal, the
puissant sexual energies of a novel.

In V, the same could be said for WORK, which railroads sexuality.

But then both readings would depend on hard-ons as a good thing, and I'm not
sure of that in any of P's novels.

As for El Drano, I figure Golden Fang was paying him, not Mickey, as just
another employee in their complete vertical integration of a totalised smack
industry (which, as others have noted, is a good metaphor for capitalism and
which is also earlier explicitly used as a metaphor for the US war machine -
two sides of the same coin in P's writing).

So Golden Fang paid him and when Coy becomes useful as a spy, there's no
problems killing Leonard off to provide a clean cover. Perhaps Burke Stodger
signed the contract, since it's Stodger who hooks Coy up with the GF.

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 8:09 AM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

> There's a similar moment in V involving Profane's erection and the
> newspaper employment listings.  Recycling, an allusion or just a recounting
> of his own experience?
>
> Laura
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>
>
>
> >She greeets him and he has an erection which he covers with the Book
> >review from the Paper. classic sublimation and an interesting point
> >to insert the idea of a book review; is the reader still interested?
>
>
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