The modern world subjects us to pressures that at times we are not able to bear," she said.
Questlove subjects us to a drum solo of a length last heard from Cozy Powell, then oversees shock-and-awe assaults on Guns N' Roses, Lead Belly and even the Shadows' Apache.
The Human Centipede 2 not only thrusts it under our noses; it forces us to contemplate losing control of it to a malign outsider who wilfully subjects us to the most extreme forms of alimentary abuse.
Unfortunately, so saturated are we in the tatty ephemera the current publishing climate subjects us to, one can almost be forgiven for not realising the academic publishers of this world exist.
The most famous section, "The Part About the Crimes," subjects us to a peeled-eyeball inventory of hundreds of murdered female corpses, the victims of an epidemic that has been afflicting the city of Santa Teresa, a fictionalized Ciudad Juárez.
It's a brave family movie that invests in high-budget thrills without the safety-net of a franchise brand, mows down a small child with a pickup truck (it's OK, she's a robot), and subjects us to the sight of Hugh Laurie in black leather jodhpurs.
