V-2: 4 Nose Job

rich richard.romeo at gmail.com
Tue Aug 24 16:08:27 CDT 2010


harvey korman in Blazing Saddles:

Hedley Lamarr: Wait a minute... there might be legal precedent. Of
course! Land-snatching!
[grabs a law book]
Hedley Lamarr: Land, land... "Land: see Snatch."
[flips back several pages]

>
> So many scenes of the "inert" being forced into living flesh in "V." is
> concerned with specifically female flesh.  There's more of this in Trench's
> "Stick it in, pull it out", more later at the ballet, more of it in the
> dissembling of "V." at the end of the book. I really don't know if this is
> in Deleuze and Guattari territory or if it's more along the lines of the
> Gaia theory, but there's a host of metaphors here that equal rape. But in
> Thomas Pynchon's mind the words "Land" and the "Rape" are usually found
> close to each other.
>
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