(urth) Short Story 194*: The Vampire Kiss

[marcaramini]

I guess that would depend on whether Fagin saw a trial or heard of an arrest,  but, yes, "transported" is pretty ambiguous language.  Dickens makes such a big deal about the trial and execution of Fagin ... would Fagin simply assume tommy is transported rather than executed or incarcerated if he simply disappears? 


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From: "Jeffery Wilson clueland.com" <jwilson at clueland.com> 
Date: 04/23/2015  1:06 AM  (GMT-07:00) 
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Subject: Re: (urth) Short Story 194*: The Vampire Kiss 

On 4/22/2015 10:26 AM, Marc Aramini wrote:
> Is the Tommy of this story the older boy just released from prison,
> Tommy Chitling, from /Oliver Twist/? Since Fagin is executed at the
> culmination of Dicken's novel and Tommy Chitling has been released from
> a recent stay in prison, it does not seem that they could be the same
> boy (Wolfe's secondary narrator is transported to Australia as was the
> custom for some criminals in England at the time).

I think there is an obvious alternate interpretation; Tommy disappears 
and rumor and hearsay fill the gap with him being taken and transported, 
when he was instead "taken" by the woman from the cellar.

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Jeff Wilson - < jwilson at clueland.com >
A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab
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