# worm and mahood *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 26 Aug 2003* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### maa32 *26 Aug 2003, 20:48* One quick note on the Beckett bit: I think Mahood and the Worm are different characters only insofar as the multiple personality disorders of Malone are different: when the penis is limp, it is the worm, and the narrator "Mahood" goes to sleep and and is taken over. When it is erect, it is "awake". In other words, both Malone and his genitals suffer from MPD. Hmm. Sorry to clog up the urth list with that, but I knew that someone here would get the same idea! Hopefully, no one was offended. Hey, Beckett wrote it! Take care, all. Marc Aramini ---