GRGR(17) - Roots

[David Morris]

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(202.33) There may, for a moment, have been some
golden, vaguely rootlike or manlike figure beginning
to form [...] But Slothrop isn't to be let off quite
so easy.
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(366.30) The reefer keeps comming around:  darts and
stabs through this root shelter.  Everybody forgets
what it is they've been talking about.  There's the
smell of the earth.  Bugs rush through, aerating.
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(625.2)  At last, lying one afternoon spread-eagled at
his ease in the sun, at the edge of one of the ancient
Plague towns he becomes a cross himself, a crossroads,
a living intersection where [...] a common criminal is
to be hanged at noon. [...] and just as his neck
breaks he actually _comes_ [...] drips to earth at the
exact center of the crossroad where, in the workings
of the night, it changes into a madrake root.
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http://www.pantheon.org/mythica/articles/m/mandrake.html

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/3664/mandrake.html

http://psychicinvestigator.com/Drugs/Mandrk.htm

http://trc.ucdavis.edu/coursepages/plb105/Students/Tomato/Intro/Phylogeny/Mandragora.html






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