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Well, Garp doesn't have a sister. Although, his mom screws a comatose soldier (hence the existence of Garp), so you could say that the not-kosher, non-con sex issue is quite present.
Garp still has weird and inappropriate sex with -- hell, I can't remember any more -- a friend's wife?
Just for the record, what sort of sex is not weird?
::resists urge to google::
I think if you judge sex against itself, you're going to align "weird" within its boundaries. If all sex is weird, but some is really fucking weird, then the application of the term will shift.
I can't recall any other instances of specific circumstances that were identical to the one in question, so not quite a trope yet IMHO. But I have run across literature with other vaguely analogous mishaps. And Beecher and Robson acted out something like it on Oz, with the car crash being replaced by malicious intent.
SCREWING YOUR SISTER I.E. INCEST issue John Irving has???
Wasn't this just in Hotel New Hampshire? And that family is all sorts of screwed up. (although, it is my favorite)
Wasn't this just in Hotel New Hampshire? And that family is all sorts of screwed up. (although, it is my favorite)
Speaking of the Hotel New Hampshire, I TiVoed it this weekend just to catch a glimpse of the super tiny and wee young Seth Green in his movie debut as Egg.
Bwah:
LONDON (Reuters) - Producers of the upcoming movie based on the blockbuster novel "The Da Vinci Code" were not allowed to film in Britain's Westminster Abbey after church officials denounced the book as "theologically unsound."
"Although a real page turner, 'The Da Vinci code' is theologically unsound and we cannot commend or endorse the contentious and wayward religious and historic suggestions made in the book -- nor its views of Christianity and the New Testament," the Abbey said in a statement.
"It would therefore be inappropriate to film scenes from the book here."
I actually think it's a bad idea to allow filming in cathedrals anyway. On religious grounds: if you believe in the concept of sanctified ground, then you don't use it for entirely secular purposes.
...Also, quoth the Abbey, "It would really suck to have to close for a day, because that 400-mile line of Americans waiting to get in would probably hurt us."
Although a real page turner, 'The Da Vinci code' is theologically unsound and we cannot commend or endorse the contentious and wayward religious and historic suggestions made in the book -- nor its views of Christianity and the New Testament.
For the record, this sentence is both more complex than you'll find in aforementioned page-turner, and possessed of more $0.50 words than you can shake an SAT booklet at.
Whilst on vacation I saw two movies. Layer Cake was fun and clever and dark in all the neo-British caper film ways which I enjoy. Sweet Jebus, that Daniel Craig is ho-o-o-o-ot.
Also saw Madagascar, which a friend of ours produced. It was enjoyable and sweet--not a must-see for non-animation fans, but I had a really good time. The Ali G dude was hysterical.