File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1995/avant-garde_Aug.95, message 64


Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 23:17:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: Karen A Hennig <khennig-AT-uoguelph.ca>
Subject: Re: Hype and Gore




On Tue, 29 Aug 1995, Gordon Fitch wrote:

> > On Mon, 28 Aug 1995, Gordon Fitch wrote:
> > > It's funny -- almost forty years ago, in my teens, I 
> > > wrote a satire about a man who killed people, chopped up
> > > their corpses, and reattached them in odd ways to form
> > > "sculptures."  ...
> 
> Karen A Hennig:
> > 
> >      Didn't Mary Shelly already do this?
> >
>  Gordon Fitch:

> I think of Dr. Frankenstein's work as Science, rather than
> Art.  
> 


> I think that Dr. Frankenstein failed to see it as anything other than 
science too though I think the story is just as much about 
responsibility and creation- and 
the drive to create. Though your story, you said was a satire which I 
don't think I would attribute to Shelly's work, so your story would 
appear to be, 
original. > > 

k

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