V-2nd C4 (A Little?) Sexually Aroused
Dave Monroe
against.the.dave at gmail.com
Sun Jan 16 17:08:41 CST 2011
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> "'Stick it in ... pull it out ... stick it in ... ooh that was good
> ... pull it out ...'" (p. 108)
"The sexuality of Esther's nose job is a comic inversion of the usual
joke about men and the length of their noses, demonstrating a vaguely
unhealthy reversal of role-playing." (Olderman, Beyond the Wasteland,
129, in Grant, Companion, 64)
See ...
Olderman, Raymond. Beyond the Wasteland:
A Study of the American Novel in the 1960s.
New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 1972.
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