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To: lorrie coey who wrote (16)3/30/2000 10:44:00 PM
From: Tom Clarke  Read Replies (2) of 113
 
Just saw an ad that plays into some of what you're talking about. It's an ad for an insurance company. It starts by showing a little girl standing alone in a field. Camera pulls back and pans over to a charging rhino. The narration drones on while the rhino keeps charging at the little girl, who is standing there, fearless, with arms outstretched. The rhino stops just short, then the girl strokes and kisses the horn.

Is it reading too much into it by reminding ourselves that the rhino's horn has been a symbol of potency for centuries? Indeed it still is in many parts of the world. Ground rhino horn is still sold as an aphrodisiac in a lot of places, not all of them unsophisticated places.

I don't know what this is supposed to sublimate or signify. Deflowering? Virgin sacrifice? Both?

I've seen the ad before and didn't have this take on it. Talking to you is messin with my mind. LOL!
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