Victory through Vegetables

[LARSSON at vax1.mankato.msus.edu]

John Hamill writes:
"Persisting with the thought, in relation to Slothrop, the treatment of the body
as a "vegetable" seems to me to be an interesting example of another kind of
transformation which blurs the relation between "life" and "death" as a hoary
old  binary opposition."

Don't forget that mandrakes scream when plucked from the ground, and the
earth itself is a living critter.  Tends to blur our comfortable distinctions,
doesn't it?

--Don Larsson, Mankato State U., MN