'George Bataille's Bathrobe' and 'Blood on the Cat’s Neck' - Fassbinder and Foreman on the Limits of Language

NYTimes.com: "The alien Phoebe Zeitgeist in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s “Blood on the Cat’s Neck” has been sent to earth to learn about “human democracy.” But there’s a problem: “Although she has learned the words, she doesn’t understand human language.”"