Parasitoid Criticism   The methodological literary approach developed in the 1930s by the surrealist artist, Salvador Dali, to describe his art, which involved optical illusions and other multiple images, is `paranoid criticism`. The technique is to invoke a paranoid state (fear of the self being manipulated, targeted or controlled by others) in order to examine what causes the personal identity to fear deconstruction, while subjectivity remains the primary aspect of the artwork. In a work...

Casanova   Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) was a famous lover of women written about by biographers, historians, novelists, and playwrights. Dramatized in the modern edutainment mass media of cinema and television, etc., actual video recordings of Casanova`s exploits are missed. Although Casanova`s love affairs seem a matter of farce, he was a genuine hero in the Christian mold. The reason for this is the animus of a woman which, according to developmental psychologist Carl Gustav Jung...

Robert A. Heinlein`s Starship Troopers And Spider Parachutes    Science fiction writer, Robert A. Heinlein (1907-88), wrote the last of his juvenile novels for publisher, Scribner`s, Starship Troopers in 1959. The society was similar to that of ancient Greece where a citizen had to serve the state to have the vote, and Scribner`s rejected the novel as unsuitable for adolescents in the United States of America, deeming it `fascistoid`, but it appeared as Starship Soldier in...

Read Under The Ped`s Sheets   Although the Bible is couched as mythic by preachers who pride themselves on describing the ineffable Redemption of Jesus Christ through the word of his teaching in the New Testament that largely superseded the Old Testament of the law and history of the Jewish people, which was the Torah and Talmud, Jesus` New Testament teaching is perfectly understandable as directed at `woman`s seed`. Jesus was born uncontaminated by male semen from his mother, the Virgin...

Three Times Gay   In Robert A. Heinlein`s(1907-88) science fiction novel, The Number Of The Beast (1980), the hypothesis is that `mad scientist`, Jake Burroughs, constructs a `continua vehicle` capable of accessing alternate universesto the `number of the beast`, 666: `Eh? Oh! The Revelation of Saint John the Divine. But I scrawled it sloppily. You took it that I wrote this: 666. But what I intended to write was this: six raised to its sixth power, and the result in turn raised to its...

Slavery In Nudity With Shakespeare`s Cleopatra And Vadim`s Barbarella   In Islam the Koran (610-30 C.E.) dictated to the Prophet Mohamed by the angels, according to Moslem tradition, contains references to `djinn`, who`re the genies of Arabian folklore that variously appear from bottles and oil lamps, etc., as decribed in the 8th century collection of tales, 1001 Nights, for example, to fulfil wishes, although the djinn Iblis in the Koran is depicted as a Shaitan, a type of djinn...

You`re The Man   While making the television situation comedy series, What I Like About You (2002-6), with Jenny Garth as Valerie Tyler, `butt crack is the new cleavage`, comedienne Amanda Bynes, who was Holly in the show about sisters sharing a New York city apartment, made the comedy movie, She`s The Man (2006), based on the idea of transvestism, that is, the girl Viola Hastings wears boys` clothes as her brother Sebastian, so she can play soccer for Illyria boarding school against...

Horror of Religion   What I Like About You (2002-6) was one of the most entertaining of the television situation comedies of the early 21st century produced by a nation most famous for their scope and wit, the United States of America, and starring actress Jenny Garth of TV`s Beverley Hills 90210 (1990-2000) fame, as older sister Valerie Tyler, `butt crack is the new cleavage,` and comedienne Amanda Bynes, fresh from her own universe, The Amanda Show (1999-2002), as her teenaged...

The Fantastic Four And The Invisible Woman   Scientists have postulated for some time that viruses travelling through space are responsible for human life originating on Earth: `… if panspermia does occur, then it should be possible to track the spread of life through the stars like we might track the progress of a virus.`1 That suggests life on Earth has had a virus transmitted to it at some point in the past, and so signs of that transmission should be detectable. The rise of the virus...

Simple Rules   A peculiar characteristic of English society is transvestism, while the perception that `TV` or transvestism has a connection with television isn`t. The television comedy series, It Ain`t Half Hot Mum (1974-81), which centered around a concert party of the British army during the period of India`s gaining independence from colonial rule in 1947, featured actor Melvyn Hayes as Bombardier `Gloria` Beaumont, who was perceived by all as a `TV`, that is, a transvestite, although...