V-2: 4 Nose Job

Robin Landseadel robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Tue Aug 24 16:13:33 CDT 2010


Oy!
On Aug 24, 2010, at 2:08 PM, rich wrote:

> 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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