From Wombat:
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I currently have a cold, possibly with a minor fever, and my troubled dreams kept trying to convince me that there are coded messages in
_The
Book of the Short Sun_ which will reveal who will, in the long run, win the 2000 presidential election.
Alas, I can't remember any of the codes, but I did come away with one key insight: Bush is a plant, and Gore is an animal byproduct. So is this a battle of the sexes?
And Blattid:
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Alga emerged from her pond and asked:
What does "blattid" mean? It's not in the OED.
One of the Blattidaea, of course. Or, as my dear old
grammaw would say, "One of dem cock-a-roaches."
--Blattid
Blatt! Blatt!
I should emerge more often. I'm chuckling.
-alga
*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.