In the 5th chapter there is described the method of honey bee colony strength and
prolificness of queen.
This double assumption of
prolificness and of healthiness is obviously not always true in particular instances.
An important factor is the range of filmmakers with whom Figueroa works, from Luis Bunuel to Ismael Rodriguez and Emilio Fernandez; perhaps more important, though, is his
prolificness, shooting eight films in 1949 and ten in 1952, for example, suggestive of the factory style of the system.
Porter was legendary for his wit, verve, encyclopedic erudition, verbal brio, and preternatural
prolificness; as his friend and colleague Simon Schama remarks in a foreword to this book, Flesh in the Age of Reason is a "shockingly vital and exuberant" work in which the author brandishes his feeling for language "as a succulent, luscious, toothsome thing." A scholar of compelling energy and charm, Porter ran a lively arts program on BBC radio, abandoned a Cambridge fellowship partly because he was fed up with finding himself in cinemas and supermarkets frequented by nobody but dons, and seemed always by some biological miracle to have exactly five days' growth of beard on his chin.
The
prolificness, the self-plagiarism, the snappy, highly consumable prose and, of course, the sales figures: Eagleton wishes for capitalism's demise, but as long as it's here, he plans to do as well as he can out of it.