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
Dust (2001 film) Dust (2001 film) Dust is a 2001 time-twister drama film, a UK-French,German-Spanish-Macedonian co-production, written and directed by Milcho Manchevski. The film stars Joseph Fiennes, David Wenham, Adrian Lester, Rosemary Murphy, Nikolna Kujaca, Anne Brochet and Vera Farmiga. It was the opening-night film of the 2001 Venice Film Festival, premiering on August 29, 2001, and was later released in a number of countries. In the United States, the film was given a limited release on August 22, 2003. A New York thief, a tough-as-nails hundred-year-old woman, two brothers from the Wild West, a revolutionary hell-bent on liberating Macedonia from the Ottoman