King Kong is Back!

[Dave Monroe]

King Kong Is Back!
Introduction: The Ape in the Mirror
By David Brin, Ph.D.

http://www.davidbrin.com/kongintro.htm
http://www.benbellabooks.com/index.php
http://books.google.com/books/about/King_Kong_is_back.html?id=Q_cghQxitnMC

King Kong & the Like

Fay Wray look, 57; Fay Wray, 57, 179, 275; "You will have the tallest,
darkest leading man in Hollywood," 179; "headlights burning like the
eyes of" 247; "the black scapeape we cast down like Lucifer," 275;
Mitchell Prettyplace book about, 275; "the Fist of the Ape," 277;
"orangutan on wheels," 282; taking a shit, 368; "The figures darkened
and deformed, resembling apes" 483; "a troupe of performing
chimpanzees" 496; "on the tit with no motor skills," 578; "Negroid
apes," 586; "that sacrificial ape," 664; "a gigantic black ape," 688;
Carl Denham, 689; poem based on King Kong, 689

See also: actors/directors film/cinema references; King Kong Web Page

http://www.thomaspynchon.com/gravitys-rainbow/alpha/k.html

Fay Wray look

http://www.thomaspynchon.com/gravitys-rainbow/extra/wray.html

     To insist on the miraculous is to deny to the machine at least
some of its claims on us, to assert the limited wish that living
things, earthly and otherwise, may on occasion become Bad and Big
enough to take part in transcendent doings. By this theory, for
example, King Kong (?-1933) becomes your classic Luddite saint. The
final dialogue in the movie, you recall, goes, "Well, the airplanes
got him." "No. . . it was Beauty killed the Beast." In which we again
encounter the same Snovian Disjunction, only different, between the
human and the technological.

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-luddite.html
http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_luddite.html