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<td style="font: inherit;" valign="top">DAVID STOCKHOFF- <br>
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<div>I like the comparison of Horn to John Carter of Mars.
But I only read the first book long ago and have
forgotten it. Is there any direction the connection
gives us? Certainly Wolfe must have been in a Burroughs
kind of mood for a while there, given all the six-legged
creatures. Speaking of which, there is a movie version
of John Carter of Mars due out in 2012. And going on
another tangent, I always think of the inhumi as a
metaphor for what happens when a writer falls under the
influence of another writer: if you read a lot of
Melville while you are writing, don't be surprised if it
ends up retaining some of the character of Melville. And
Wolfe himself enjoys imitation; he did a great Dunsany
pastiche once. He is very conscious, if not
self-conscious, of the process of literary digestion and
re-creation. It's more than just reference---it's
re-working.<br>
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Perhaps Wolfe was intrigued the parallels between the Whorl and
Pellucidar and decided to double-down on Burroughs.<br>
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u+16b9<br>
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