It occurs to me that the out provided in Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's From Hell , for the survival of Mary Kelly - that it's either her or not someone mistaken for her - makes the reader complicit in the murder, by virtue of desire (to see her killed or escaped) and our own innate feeling of rightness. No matter which way you go, you're making a call on a callous and horrible murder, unless you float the story in a nebulous Schrodinger's victim arrangement.
That's quite good.
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- Travis Hedge Coke
- Travis Hedge Coke was born in North Carolina of Indigenous American and French Canadian roots. An alumn of Soul Mountain, Weymouth Center, Kimmel Harding Nelson, and the Sandhill Crane Literary Fellowship, Travis' writing can be found in Many Mountains Moving, The Florida Review, and Yellow Medicine Review. The associate editor of the anthology, Sing, and the founding editor of Future Earth Magazine, his readings have been recorded for The Lumberyard and AWP's 2010 Podcast Selections, his paintings have been displayed on four continents, and he was with a band literally tens of people heard of.
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