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Salomy took some liberties with the script, with mixed results. The inclusion of readings from De Quincey's satiric essay "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts" and from the New York Times' grisly converage of a related 1924 murder gave the plot additional credibility. But his decision to play the last scene with alternate endings only weakens a climactic curtain...
Though the book is organized topically, Bryan scatters memorable quotes throughout. Among them: Thomas de Quincey's observation that "if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing, and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking," as well as Balzac's "Behind every great fortune there is a crime" and Fred Allen's "A gentleman never strikes a lady with his hat on." There are quizzes: 1. Was Romeo a Capulet or a Montague? 2. Which Wright brother made the first flight at Kitty Hawk? 3. What word...
...reverberates into the present. In The Maul and the Pear Tree, James applies her narrative and analytic talents to the actual: the Ratcliffe Highway murders that took place in early-l9th century London. Although the seven killings in two merchant households were widely publicized and later inspired Thomas De Quincey's essay "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts," James and her collaborator, Police Historian T.A. Critchley, found that few researchers had scrutinized contemporary accounts and public records. Their own examination unearthed appalling evidence of police ineptitude: "As the story developed it became clear that the system...
Post-modernism at Work: Current city planning projects in Austin, Texas, and Memphis. Tennessee: Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincey...
...might marinate into the parable of Jack Abbott and Norman Mailer: the redemption of the distinctly uninnocent. In one sense, the tale is merely a particularly sensational item of literary gossip. But buried amid the blood and chic is an interesting question of principle. Almost everything, as Thomas De Quincey noticed, has either a moral handle or an aesthetic handle. Which handle do you reach for in the Abbott-Mailer case...