334/Bodies - Revision history

Eb at 06:48, 25 January 2025

2025-01-25T06:48:43Z

Eb: /* the Democratic National Convention (formerly, Pier 19) */

2025-01-24T01:08:06Z

the Democratic National Convention (formerly, Pier 19)

Eb at 00:37, 19 January 2025

2025-01-19T00:37:02Z

Eb: /* systematic lupus erythematosis */

2022-04-19T07:01:59Z

systematic lupus erythematosis

Eb at 05:28, 7 April 2022

2022-04-07T05:28:25Z

Eb: /* as much a mechanical as a biologic process */

2022-04-07T05:24:34Z

as much a mechanical as a biologic process

Eb: /* systematic lupus erythematosis */

2022-04-07T05:19:33Z

systematic lupus erythematosis

Eb: /* the castration of any Republican */

2022-04-07T05:15:03Z

the castration of any Republican

Eb: /* the Democratic National Convention (formerly, Pier 19) */

2021-01-10T02:46:44Z

the Democratic National Convention (formerly, Pier 19)

Eb: collapse summary

2017-02-13T01:46:46Z

collapse summary

← Older revision		Revision as of 06:48, 25 January 2025
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		+	{{#addbodyclass: tiled-toc tiled-toc-no-chapters}}
	'''"Bodies"''' is the second section of ''[[334]]''. It first appeared separately in {{ISFDB\|34506\|''Quark'' #4}}, 1971.		'''"Bodies"''' is the second section of ''[[334]]''. It first appeared separately in {{ISFDB\|34506\|''Quark'' #4}}, 1971.

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 === the Democratic National Convention (formerly, Pier 19) ===
-<div class="embed-map small-map right">{{#multimaps: 40.7072943,-74.0004561~Pier 19/DNC
+<mapframe align="right" text="Pier 19/DNC" width="300" height="300" zoom="15" longitude="-74.0004561" latitude="40.70729"/>
 Pier 19 is an area next to {{wp|South Street Seaport}} below the Brooklyn Bridge; the actual pier was demolished in the mid-20th century.

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-'''"Bodies"''' is the second section of ''[[334]]''. It first appeared separately in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?34506 ''Quark'' #4], 1971.
+'''"Bodies"''' is the second section of ''[[334]]''. It first appeared separately in {{ISFDB|34506|''Quark'' #4}}, 1971.
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 === his initiation into the K of C ===
-The {{wp|Knights of Columbus}}, a Catholic fraternal lodge. Amputating a finger joint is not one of their traditions, as far as I know, but seems to have become one in the future of ''334'' (Ab joined 25 years earlier, in 1997). This kind of amputation has sometimes been a feature of male initiation rites.<ref>[http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-amputati.html "Amputation"] in ''The Columbia Encyclopedia'', 6th ed. (2013)</ref>
+The {{wp|Knights of Columbus}}, a Catholic fraternal lodge. Amputating a finger joint is not one of their traditions, as far as I know, but seems to have become one in the future of ''334'' (Ab joined 25 years earlier, in 1997). This kind of amputation has sometimes been a feature of male initiation rites.<ref>{{cite article|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-amputati.html|title=Amputation|date=2013|publication=The Columbia Encyclopedia|pub-date=6th edition}}</ref>
 === WANDTKE, JWRZY ===
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 === the Steven Jay Mandell Memorial Clinic ===
-Steven Jay Mandell was the first member of the Cryonics Society of New York to be frozen, in the hope of eventual revival, after his death in 1968. At the time ''334'' was written, Mandell was, as far as the public knew, still frozen and likely to remain so. It was later revealed that due to a lack of funds, he had actually been transferred to a cheaply run facility that allowed bodies to thaw and decompose.<ref>[http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/suspensionfailures.html "Suspension Failures: Lessons from the Early Years"], R. Michael Perry (1992), in ''Cryonics'' (reproduced on ALCOR Life Extension Foundation site)</ref>
+Steven Jay Mandell was the first member of the Cryonics Society of New York to be frozen, in the hope of eventual revival, after his death in 1968. At the time ''334'' was written, Mandell was, as far as the public knew, still frozen and likely to remain so. It was later revealed that due to a lack of funds, he had actually been transferred to a cheaply run facility that allowed bodies to thaw and decompose.<ref>{{cite article|author=Perry, R. Michael|date=1992|url=http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/suspensionfailures.html|title=Suspension Failures: Lessons from the Early Years|publication=Cryonics}} (Reproduced on ALCOR Life Extension Foundation site)</ref>
 === the real moon was there ... A population of how many now? Seventy-five? ===

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 === systematic lupus erythematosis ===
 [[wikipedia:Systemic lupus erythematosus|Lupus]], an autoimmune disease whose cause is still unclear, affects primarily women. Its incidence has been increasing since the mid-20th century—not as dramatically as Disch describes (between 2010 and 2016, the average number of lupus-related deaths in the U.S. per year was 1,176<ref>[https://wonder.cdc.gov/cmf-icd10.html Compressed Mortality database 1999-2016], Centers for Disease Control</ref>), although he also suggests that many deaths attributed to other diseases might turn out to be lupus.
 === as much a mechanical as a biologic process ===

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 === as much a mechanical as a biologic process ===
-A possible reason Ab finds it so easy to rationalize killing Frances: because she is alive only due to technological support.
+A possible reason Ab finds it so easy to rationalize killing Frances: because she is alive only due to technological support. There's arguably a similar theme in the way other characters in the novel seem to almost welcome the idea of civilization (or at least New York) coming to an end, focusing on its un-alive and mechanical aspects and not valuing the life it still sustains.
 === the afternoon art movie, a drama of circus life ===

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 === the castration of any Republican ===
-See "[[#the Democratic National Convention (formerly, Pier 19)|Democratic National Convention]]" below. In the parlance of ''334'', "Republican" and "Democrat" have acquired new meanings which will become clear from context. At this point, the only clue is that they are ''not'' political terms, because Ab also lists "political extremists" as a different category of people he hates.
+See "[[#the Democratic National Convention (formerly, Pier 19)|Democratic National Convention]]" below. In the parlance of ''334'', "Republican" and "Democrat" have acquired new meanings which will become clear from context. At this point, the only clue is that they are ''not'' political terms, because Ab also lists "political extremists" as ''another'' category of people he hates.
 === Before revaluation ===

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 Pier 19 is an area next to {{wp|South Street Seaport}} below the Brooklyn Bridge; the actual pier was demolished in the mid-20th century.
-The reason that a sex district adorned with a "glowing neon vulva" is named the Democratic National Convention is that in ''334'', "Republican" means "homosexual" and "Democratic" means "heterosexual." 21st-century readers might assume that Disch meant this as an ironic reversal, given the Republican Party's history of opposition to gay rights; however, in 1971 the two major parties were not strikingly different from each other in that regard. A more likely explanation is that this is New York City, which has a long history of Democratic Party dominance, so the sexual majority is identified with the political majority. The fact that there is virtually no mention of government in the novel, except as a distant bureaucracy, suggests that most residents are so politically uninvolved that the words have lost their original meaning.
+The reason that a sex district adorned with a "glowing neon vulva" is named the Democratic National Convention is that in ''334'', "Republican" means "homosexual" and "Democratic" means "heterosexual." 21st-century readers might assume that Disch meant this as an ironic reversal, given the Republican Party's history of opposition to LGBT rights; however, in 1971 the two major parties were not strikingly different from each other in that regard. A more likely explanation is that this is New York City, which has a long history of Democratic Party dominance, so the sexual majority is identified with the political majority. The fact that there is virtually no mention of government in the novel, except as a distant bureaucracy, suggests that most residents are so politically uninvolved that the words have lost their original meaning.
 === He had said yes to Yes once too often ===

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 '''"Bodies"''' is the second section of ''[[334]]''. It first appeared separately in ''Quark'' #4, 1971.
-== Summary ==
+{{SummaryCollapsed |
-<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">The year is 2022. Ab Holt and his flunky Arnold Chapel operate a black-market corpse-dealing scheme out of {{wp|Bellevue Hospital}}, supplying a necrophiliac brothel. When Ab finds that he's sold a body that will be missed—it was meant to be frozen at a {{wp|cryonics}} facility—he browbeats Chapel into killing a patient and substituting her for the missing cadaver.</div>
+The year is 2022. Ab Holt and his flunky Arnold Chapel operate a black-market corpse-dealing scheme out of {{wp|Bellevue Hospital}}, supplying a necrophiliac brothel. When Ab finds that he's sold a body that will be missed—it was meant to be frozen at a {{wp|cryonics}} facility—he browbeats Chapel into killing a patient and substituting her for the missing cadaver.
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