Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 02:16:42 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Hype and Gore




On Tue, 29 Aug 1995, Karen A Hennig wrote:

> 
> 
> On Tue, 29 Aug 1995, Gordon Fitch wrote:
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> > > On Mon, 28 Aug 1995, Gordon Fitch wrote:
> > > > It's funny -- almost forty years ago, in my teens, I 
> > > > wrote a satire about a man who killed people, chopped up
> > > > their corpses, and reattached them in odd ways to form
> > > > "sculptures."  ...
> > 
> > Karen A Hennig:
> > > 
> > >      Didn't Mary Shelly already do this?
> > >
> >  Gordon Fitch:
> 
> > I think of Dr. Frankenstein's work as Science, rather than
> > Art.  
> > 
> 
> 
> > I think that Dr. Frankenstein failed to see it as anything other than 
> science too though I think the story is just as much about 
> responsibility and creation- and 
> the drive to create. Though your story, you said was a satire which I 
> don't think I would attribute to Shelly's work, so your story would 
> appear to be, 
> original. > > 
> 
> k

         Or is a satire, not really "satire" unless/until it is a direct 
attack upon some values (detatched, scientific ones for example), by 
indirect means? 


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