fifth head owlet- wolf

Gerry Quinn · 02 Apr 2013, 10:23 · from 2013-April.txt.gz

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From: gerry at bindweed.com (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 11:23:29 +0100
Subject: (urth) fifth head owlet- wolf
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From: David Stockhoff

> Peritonitis, exactly. It need not have any meaning. It only needs to be an 
> organizing principle.

An organising principle must organise.  What is organised by this storm of 
putative connections?  [And 'odd' things that are not really odd at all? 
Can't a hungry girl falling asleep under a tree dream of a planet seen 
through the branches as a giant fruit?]

5HOC is not Peritonitis, in which there is an explicit disconnect between 
the description of the protagonist as a humanoid hero and as a microbe, 
which the reader is invited to make of what he will.

- Gerry Quinn

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