Victory through Vegetables

[Andrew Dinn]

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."

And Don Larson replies:

> 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?

Yeah, vegetable life forms are still far too complex. That last
infinitesimal delta-t only shrinks to zero when there is 'a face on
every mountainside / and a soul in every stone'


Andrew Dinn
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O alter Duft aus Maerchenzeit / Berauschest wieder meine Sinne
Ein naerrisch Heer aus Schelmerein / Durchschwirrt die leichte Luft