| Juanita: | Wasn't this work inspired by Jacques Lacan? |
| Jack: | (Half in jest) Of course – the way that competing discourses vie for dominance is perfectly clear. |
| Ella: | (Half-earnestly) And can't you sense how the phallic desire to penetrate into the depths is also. . . |
| Shu: | (Interrupting Ella) Well, I suppose from that point of view we would also have to acknowledge the contribution of Hegel. Clearly, there is a dialectical dynamism inherent in the this image. |
| Jack: | Ahh . . . (shrugging his shoulders) Can idiocy ever approach wisdom? |
