From Hell in the alley below. In "The Dance of the Gull Catchers" Moore reports that he had been drawn into and even obsessed with the particulars of the Ripper murders. The Ripperologists—or "Gull Catchers" as he refers to them—are depicted as unhinged men running about with large butterfly nets, chasing details and connections, however tenuous. Initially, Moore observes them from a distance, but eventually—while researching and writing "From Hell"—he joins them. Moore compares the multitude of increasingly outlandish Ripper theories to a Koch snowflake, where a finite, fixed location, event and era (London, in late 1888) can have an infinite number
Hell in the Pacific Hell in the Pacific Hell in the Pacific is a 1968 British-Japanese war drama film starring Lee Marvin and Toshirō Mifune, the only two actors in the entire film. It was directed by John Boorman. It looks at the importance of human contact and the bond which can form even between enemies if lacking other contact. Two unnamed WWII servicemen, one American (Lee Marvin) and one Japanese (Toshiro Mifune), are stranded on an uninhabited Pacific island. The Japanese soldier suddenly discovers a military plane crash kit near his camp. The American, whose plane it recently came from, watches him salvage