Could a novel based upon a fictional candestined effort to re-create Castrati by the old-fashioned method make it in mainstream literature?
WE have serial killers, mass murders of all sorts, nuclear terrorism novels where many are killed. What is the sacredness of castration as a subject when we have gruesome mass-murder novels that we don't think anything about reading or writing or making into hollywood movies?
Why are we so centered on abuse when murder is just given a passing disgusted expression. People just disappear (http://www.aruba.com/holloway/index.htm) and the outrage is rationalized away (http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2006/4/19/214740/240) by cold-hearted idiots. The same idiots, I might add, who would rip their clothing and pound their chest about a fictional castration.
Meanwhile, nobody knows (http://www.bargain-mall.com/Forum/forum ... Forum.aspx) what happened and all sorts of speculation (http://www.bargain-mall.com/Forum/forum ... wPost.aspx) exists.
Children dissappear (http://www.progressiveu.org/190000-why-natalie-holloway) every day. We ignore what actually happens and we condemn the fiction.
So, who wants to write the novel? Shall we make a group effort with each one of us writing a chapter or two?