![]() ![]() Al really doesn’t have anything to do with sacrificing. ![]() ![]() The significance that rises at this point is that, while it seems like Al and Lily are both sacrificing themselves to have deformed babies, the person who is actually sacrificing is Lily because she is the one consuming the drugs. As Al’s wife, it was Lily’s kindness to and respect for her husband that compelled her to follow his ideas whether or not she liked it. The idea of course was brought up by Al, but is it forced upon Lily? Or is it a choice Lily decides for herself? The whole idea of this extreme reproductive choice starts from Al’s selfishness. In order to answer whether or not Dunn actually defends the moral and ethics of Lily and Al’s reproductive methods, one has to look back to where the idea of prescribing drugs first came to mind. While the reproductive method they use seems to be extreme, the level of extremeness is actually determined by what the readers’ perspective is towards the novel. In Katherine Dunn’s, “Geek Love,” the extreme reproductive method is practiced between the Al and Lily couple, who are parents of the Binewski family, trying to make deformed babies in order to have them perform at a circus. ![]()
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