SLSL Intro "It Is Simply Wrong"

[The Great Quail]

VZE writes,

> Hmmmm.... I'm thinking Pig Bodine would be lead (chemical symbol Pb).

And it is indeed fitting, given his sullen nature, heavy frame, and
generally toxic character!

Stencil would, of course, be mercury; Benny profane perhaps good ol'
down-to-earth lacklustre but utterly vital carbon; Rachel could be
chromium...

Slothrop -- uranium (unstable, bright, fissile); Dixon -- oxygen (fresh yet
combustible); Mason -- bromine (melancholy, brown, yet sullenly active);
Zoyd -- neon (inert yet brightly glowing when excited); Frenesi -- silicon
(turncoat -- metal or nonmetal?)....

Oh, this is fun. But then again, I was a former chemistry teacher....

--Quail