2. Yet that urban legend informs some famous fiction: Harlan Ellison's Whimper of a Whipped Dog & Moore/Gibbon's Watchmen.
1. Of folklore & fiction. Popular version of murder of Kitty Genovese is just urban legend.
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3. Both Ellison's Whimper and Moore/Gibbon's Watchmen get some of their allusive heft from echo of supposed real world Genovese murder.
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@jlgehron Fair point. Although I'm inclined to think K. Genovese story more tabloid sensationalism than universal human truth.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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