Short Story 38: It's Very Clean

Marc Aramini · 10 Jul 2012, 04:58 · from 2012-July.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at yahoo.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 21:58:41 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) Short Story 38: It's Very Clean
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It very well could be; I haven't seen Metropolis and it has been a long time since I read The Stars my Destination.? I am convinced from the way that Wolfe talks about looking at a famous story and trying to rewrite it that he consciously does invoke a whole lot of old themes, but sometimes alters them slightly or appropriates them for very different thematic ends.
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It is interesting to me that it took Wolfe this many stories for the brothel to show up - I imagine the Victorian repression (whether real or imagined as a concept in novels and histories) necessitated far more recourse to the brothel than our current sexual sitation, but it is really quite prevalent in most of Wolfe's most ambitious work - the solar cycle, Latro, Fifth Head of Cerberus.? Whether it is an ambiguous symbol or not is not an easy thing to discern.

--- On Mon, 7/9/12, David Duffy <David.Duffy at qimr.edu.au> wrote:

I also suspect a reference to _The Stars My Destination_ (where Fourmyle
presents the men with an alluring android who they discover is a real woman at the end of the night) and perhaps _Metropolis_,

Cheers, David Duffy.
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