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"‘Even Max’s surname [Rockatansky], a deconstructionist’s dream, embodies death itself, referring as it does to a particular method of medical deconstruction, the postmortem examination. The name seems to invite analysis of the film, a detective’s search for clues which must explain the dreadful trajectory taken by the hero, a veritable descent into hell’. McAuliffe offered an explanatory footnote, ‘“With Karl von Rokitansky of Vienna (1804-78), the gross (naked eye) autopsy reached its apogee. Rokitansky utilised the microscope very little and was limited by his own humoral theory”. (Encyclopedia Britannica)’." |
"‘Even Max’s surname [Rockatansky], a deconstructionist’s dream, embodies death itself, referring as it does to a particular method of medical deconstruction, the postmortem examination. The name seems to invite analysis of the film, a detective’s search for clues which must explain the dreadful trajectory taken by the hero, a veritable descent into hell’. McAuliffe offered an explanatory footnote, ‘“With Karl von Rokitansky of Vienna (1804-78), the gross (naked eye) autopsy reached its apogee. Rokitansky utilised the microscope very little and was limited by his own humoral theory”. (Encyclopedia Britannica)’." <small><span class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Nucleophilic|Nucleophilic]] ([[User talk:Nucleophilic|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Nucleophilic|contribs]]) 03:27, 21 February 2010 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot--> |
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Quote from reference to "Rokitansky"
"‘Even Max’s surname [Rockatansky], a deconstructionist’s dream, embodies death itself, referring as it does to a particular method of medical deconstruction, the postmortem examination. The name seems to invite analysis of the film, a detective’s search for clues which must explain the dreadful trajectory taken by the hero, a veritable descent into hell’. McAuliffe offered an explanatory footnote, ‘“With Karl von Rokitansky of Vienna (1804-78), the gross (naked eye) autopsy reached its apogee. Rokitansky utilised the microscope very little and was limited by his own humoral theory”. (Encyclopedia Britannica)’." —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nucleophilic (talk • contribs) 03:27, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
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dunno where that comment bout the olympics being every 6 years came from