Geek Love
In the book Geek Love by Katherine Dunn, Dunn displays the character Arty as narcissistic, power hungry carnival freak. Arty's power allows him to accumulate a large amount of respect over impressionable people, which later builds into his Arturan cult. Arty's power, which is used purely in a selfish way, ultimately brings the downfall of him and his carnival empire. In an extreme opposite, Dunn portrays the character Chick as a child with almost limitless, telekinetic powers who is kindhearted and a faithful servant to his family. Arty wields his power, in a narcissistic, ill-hearted manner, over helpless weak minds, while Chick uses his power in selflessness and in a pure heart for the good of his family. Just as many cults today Arty receives his power from the weak, hopeless outcasts of society and those that are curious of what his Arturan cult stands for. Arty's first source of power was Alma Witherspoon who had no family or friends. Alma, heartbroken from a relationship that could not be, desired to be unique like Arty. In addition, Arty decide to remove her limbs, one by one, until she appeared without limbs, as he was. In doing so, Arty began one of his most valu
not have been able to build his cult at the extremely fast rate that it was built in. In good, to benefit his family and, in the end, destroy evil. of his family. Arty, in his self-centered attitude, uses his power to gain more power over the power over the Binewski Fabulon. In context:
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