(urth) Short Story 194*: The Vampire Kiss

marcaramini marcaramini at gmail.com
Thu Apr 23 06:48:17 PDT 2015


    
I guess the question in determining that remains, is the theme that society and justice are more monstrous than a monster ...With the Dickens characters, I assume that must be in there somewhere. 

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From: "Jeffery Wilson clueland.com" <jwilson at clueland.com> 
Date: 04/23/2015  1:06 AM  (GMT-07:00) 
To: The Urth Mailing List <urth at lists.urth.net> 
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
< http://www.tamut.edu/cil >
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