Comments on: Ancestor Worship

By: ruralsaturday

ruralsaturday — Sun, 26 Sep 2004 22:11:32 +0000

Those geometry conundrums? Where the set can’t be a subset of itself? You can’t eat your own species without becoming something other. The viciousness that rises everywhere around us finds a quiet expression in the logic of autophagic necessity but it’s pure cowardice, on a roll toward species-separation, the insect logic overtaking mammalian heart and soul. There are ways of utilizing the nutrients freed up by death that don’t involve dehumanizing cannibalistic consumption. The same logic gave us Wal-Mart and the automobile’s poison exhaust. That logic is what led us to this stark cliff. Jumping is just more weakness – panic’s adrenalin standing in for the strength of courage. It’s cowardice that needs to be rejected, not squeamishness.

By: bad Jim

bad Jim — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 09:21:11 +0000

In California you can volunteer to be an organ donor by putting a tiny pink sticker on your driver’s licence, so that when your mangled body is wrenched from a crash scene your most easily recycled parts might be harvested. With each license renewal you’re reminded how much less desirable your organs have become in the meantime. Nobody wants my 50-year-old lungs or liver, but I continue to believe I’m edible, at least from the point of view of the pigeons and seagulls I see around town, or the doves and crows in my back yard.

By: Jason Kuznicki

Jason Kuznicki — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 04:06:46 +0000

Bah… fingers got ahead of me…

By: Jason Kuznicki

Jason Kuznicki — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 04:04:50 +0000

Are there any ways of speaking to dead relatives that are both effective and still leagal in the United States?

By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 21:38:45 +0000

Very naughty, Henry, posting footnotes from the manuscript of the sequel to Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.

By: bob mcmanus

bob mcmanus — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 19:26:41 +0000

I would mention Heinlein, but that was a strange book in a strange time. Was incomprehensible to this 60’s teenager, and presumed simple deliberate provocation. Perhaps not. Gotta worry about them prions nowadays. Drag.

By: perianwyr

perianwyr — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:57:43 +0000

Ah, damn. By the time I find that in dead trees I’ll have forgotten about it.