1. Of folklore & fiction. Popular version of murder of Kitty Genovese is just urban legend.
2. Yet that urban legend informs some famous fiction: Harlan Ellison's Whimper of a Whipped Dog & Moore/Gibbon's Watchmen.
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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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4.Does fact that Ellison & Moore/Gibbon relied on urban legend and not what actually happened to K. Genovese change how we read their works?
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