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<div>I guess the question in determining that remains, is the theme that society and justice are more monstrous than a monster ...</div><div>With the Dickens characters, I assume that must be in there somewhere. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757">Sent via the Samsung Galaxy Alpha™, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone</div></div><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: "Jeffery Wilson clueland.com" <jwilson@clueland.com> <br>Date: 04/23/2015 1:06 AM (GMT-07:00) <br>To: The Urth Mailing List <urth@lists.urth.net> <br>Subject: Re: (urth) Short Story 194*: The Vampire Kiss <br><br>On 4/22/2015 10:26 AM, Marc Aramini wrote:<br>> Is the Tommy of this story the older boy just released from prison,<br>> Tommy Chitling, from /Oliver Twist/? Since Fagin is executed at the<br>> culmination of Dicken's novel and Tommy Chitling has been released from<br>> a recent stay in prison, it does not seem that they could be the same<br>> boy (Wolfe's secondary narrator is transported to Australia as was the<br>> custom for some criminals in England at the time).<br><br>I think there is an obvious alternate interpretation; Tommy disappears <br>and rumor and hearsay fill the gap with him being taken and transported, <br>when he was instead "taken" by the woman from the cellar.<br><br>-- <br>Jeff Wilson - < jwilson@clueland.com ><br>A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab<br>< http://www.tamut.edu/cil ><br>_______________________________________________<br>Urth Mailing List<br>To post, write urth@urth.net<br>Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net<br></body></html>