Word: fic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Except, of course, that there never was a real Heathcliff. The power of great fic tion makes such facts unimportant, and both L'Estrange and Caine have paid trib ute to that power. The trouble is that both writers hint of further tributes to come. Pinnacle does more than hint; it promises "additional volumes chronicling the lives and loves of the descendants of Heathcliff and Catherine." The prospect of some nine generations of Heathcliffs yet to come is horrifying, and not in a way Emily Brontë would admire. A Heathcliff in the factory, another in the trenches...
Forman never gets much farther; he just stands in the same place and keeps turning around. Father makes a second go at it, meets the mother of another fugitive girl and forgets his mission until a phone call from his wife interrupts a budding liaison. The parents join a fic- titious society, S.P.F.C. (Society for Parents of Fugitive Children), experiment with marijuana and make even bigger asses of themselves. The daughter arrives home that night to see her parents, stoned on weed and booze, playing strip poker with another couple from the S.P.F.C. So it goes, one uninspired variation after...
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