de Sade, Plato, and Jack the Ripper.....

Jonathan Laidlow · 22 Jul 1999, 11:43 · from urth-v0028.mbox · original

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From: "Jonathan Laidlow" <LAIDLOJM at hhs.bham.ac.uk>
Subject: (urth) de Sade, Plato, and Jack the Ripper.....
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 11:43:06 GMT
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'With its references to DeSade, Plato and Jack the Ripper, this  is a=20
fully realized culture, utterly strange and utterly believeable, as=20
might be expected from the author of 'The Fifth Head of Cerberus''
- - Algys Budrys, review of 'Shadow of the Torturer', The Magazine of=20
Fantasy and Science Fiction vol.58 no. 5 May 1980.

As I became bored of de Sade (!), am ignorant of Plato, and just=20
plain confused by Ripperology, where are these references? Wouldn't=20
it be fun if we teased them out?

Jonathan
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Jonathan Laidlow
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