... tu materia sanctiatis... omater omnis gaudi... Hail, hail, the carol. The phallic symbol is turned into an edible sculpture. The vegetable quid-pro-quo for the male organ supplies the same number of direct references plus - by virtue of being a symbol - an even greater number of connotations and associations as when a penis of flesh and blood had been chosen as the “leading actor". A yellow fruit, not preshrunk but bitten to fit, as the target of projections and the fixed star of male narcistic desires, fears, and sexual neurosises - extremely grotesque and funny mise-en-scene.