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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