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Dare I suggest Henry Kissinger? Mike Chopra-Gant --------------------------- FROM: Tiffany K. Wayne <tkw@sidera.com> DATE: Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:27 PM Great Friday the 13th question ;) I'm going to cheat and use a book my 12-year-old son has entitled "Monsters and Villians of the Movies and Literature." From this preteen collection, at least, the only American ones from literature are the Headless Horseman, Moby Dick, and the Flying Monkeys (from Wizard of Oz). In the films category, I see _Creature from the Black Lagoon_ (is he American?), _The Blob_, _King Kong_, _Jaws_, and various serial killers. I'll leave you to decide whether some of these are the real monsters in these stories - I'm just reporting what I found. Have fun, Tiffany K. Wayne Independent Scholar --------------------------- FROM: Kevin Hearle <khearle@astound.net> DATE: Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:33 PM One which I doubt anyone else will remember is the monster bubble gum which won't let Cadet John stop chewing it in John Steinbeck's humorous short story "The Affair at 7 Rue de M--" (from _The Portable Steinbeck_ of 1944). Best wishes, Kevin Hearle Stanford University --------------------------- FROM: Buckman, Alyson R <abuckman@saclink.csus.edu> DATE: Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:52 PM Would you include Moby Dick? He's a monster to Ahab... Buffy the Vampire Slayer is full of wonderful monsters... How are we defining monsters? Aberrations of nature, morality, society? Alyson R. Buckman Humanities and Religious Studies California State University, Sacramento
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