The Anatomy of Harpo Marx

Acknowledgments

I. Early Ecstatic Emptiness
The Holy Fool Flees Language's Stink Bomb: The Cocoanuts (1929)
Pinky, the Pointing Scapegoat, Lags Behind: Duck Soup (1933)
The Mad Mohel's Goo-Goo Eyes of Monomaniacal Attunement: A Night at the Opera (1935)
Poppy Power; or, The Thick-Enough Art of Zombie Dumbfoundment: Animal Crackers (1930)

II. Later Astonishments
Fake Dead Jew as Cute Zoo-Idiot: Room Service (1938)
Passé Punchy's Humiliated Buddy Huddle: At the Circus (1939)
Freeze Rusty's Anal Rage in a Cozy Void: Go West (1940)
Lonely Wacky's Incremental Lines of Flight: The Big Store (1941)
The Bubble-Blowing Demarcator Tickles Totality: A Night in Casablanca (1946)
Bulge, Glaze, Pause, Shock; or, The Bushy-Haired Ragpicker's Burnt Offering: Love Happy (1949)

III. The Idiot Tumbles Back to the Beginning of Time
The Undeliverable Ice of Pinky's Mom-Mouth: Horse Feathers (1932)
The Kippering, Bopping, Shushing, Bear-Hugging, Beard-Pulling Bustle: Monkey Business (1931)
The Pretzel Glimmer-Eye of Stuffy's Stuttering Surge: A Day at the Races (1937)