Talk:The Visitor (short story)
Latest comment: 9 years ago by Muzilon in topic Earlier Version
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Earlier Version edit
It is possible that neither Orsborne nor Dahl invented the basic story. Alfred Hitchcock told it at least twice when he appeared on talk shows. He might have gotten it from Orsborne, but he certainly told it before Dahl published his version. Kostaki mou (talk) 02:48, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
- As they say, "citation needed." At any rate, Hitchcock's appearance on The Tomorrow Show was in 1973, which was *after* the 1965 publication of Dahl's story. Orsborne claimed in his 1949 book (pp. 58-60) to have heard the anecdote in an "FOAF" manner, and said it happened in the "Barawi Islands". A quick online search turns up nothing to confirm the existence of these alleged islands, except in newspaper articles quoting Orsborne as saying they were somewhere "between the Indian and Arabian Seas". When Hitchcock told the story on The Tomorrow Show he said it happened in the Australian outback (where leprosy is not common, one might add). Muzilon (talk) 02:20, 20 January 2015 (UTC)