(urth) This Week in Google Alerts: Home Fires

[Jeff Wilson]

On 4/12/2012 5:47 PM, David Duffy wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2012, David Stockhoff wrote:
>
>> I'd put lobotomies, including chemical ones, in the same indefensible
>> class as amputations, castrations, sterilizations, and other
>> mutilations: even /less/ defensible than execution.
>
> Reading this, I wondered: does neurosurgery appear more often in Gene
> Wolfe's work than that of other writers of the era? I have recently
> reread Bernard Wolfe's _Limbo_, where (not really a spoiler) the
> inhabitants of Tapioca Island practiced trepanation and then lobotomy
> (with the protagonist's help) as the cure of antisocial behaviour for
> 1-2 centuries. But I don't see it in SF of the 50-60s, or in other
> fiction - _One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest_ is an exception.

BELL JAR, THE, 1963
PLANET OF THE APES (film), 1968
SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER (film), 1959


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