Geek Love Analysis

Geek Love, by Katherine Dunn, is a fictional work of art that trails the life of Olympia Binewski, a hunchbacked albino dwarf, from her creation to her death. Her parents Aloysius "Al" Binewski and his wife, the geek "Crystal" Lil, decide to ‘breed’ their own freak show, questioning: “What Greater gift could you offer your children than an inherent ability to earn a living just by being themselves?”(Dunn, 18). Most of the action takes place at the Binewski’s Fabulon, a traveling circus, where Oly along with her siblings Arturo, a flipper, aqua boy, Electra “Elly” and Iphigenia “Iphy”, the Siamese twins, and Fortunato, Chick the norm looking child with telekinetic powers get to evolve. The role each freak kid takes in the Fabulon changes, grows, some having their own ‘shows’ or cults, Arty becoming the new leader of the Fabulon. Soon what used to be the love,

This boundary line separates the visual capacity of the human eye from what is beyond it. Does that mean there’s nothing behind that line? Or does that even make the horizon real, like a border between two different countries? Most likely not. This horizon doesn’t exist, it isn’t there and it never was, because as you move toward it adjusts to your vision. It is something that people have created, accommodating with a ‘fake reality’. If it was to exist, shouldn’t the Earth be squared, and we could fall from it? No, we’re not that silly, aren’t we? But maybe we are… Think about the term ‘normality’ and what differences exist between it and this imaginary line called the horizon. We look anywhere in order to draw a line when it comes to normality. As a society, sometimes we are under the impression that there is an exact set of terms that define normal. Normality is no different than the horizon, nothing but an unfounded mindset that has been jolted into our brains from the moment we were