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This is likely to be a somewhat rambley and unfocused entry, as I am neither particularly awake nor in particularly good spirits. Likely, there will be short paragraphs. Likely, maybe, perhaps, something unpleasant will be said. Or not. But I advise that you get off now if you're prone to sea sickness, hives, or sudden bouts of impatience. My hair
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So you're saying that reading DOH will lead to multiple climaxes?
...it's a novel without a "villain," that it only contains characters which are at crossed purposes. Of course, I suppose the same could be said for any supposed protagonist/antagonist relationship.
Well, "villain" suggests a kind of malevolent intent, a knowing decision to commit evil in counter-action to an established "good". If the characters are only committing actions based on their unconventional views on morality or conduct, it becomes fuzzy. Do we truly condemn the ghul for eating human flesh?
You know, I don't think I even want to ponder that rhetorical question.
For the price of just two or three big cups of that bitter swill Starbuck's insists upon calling coffee, you can have two or three new pieces a fiction each month, plus illustrations and etc. For less than the price of a pizza. Come on. It's the right thing to do. Search your feelings. You know it to be true. If you only knew the ( ... )
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Damn right we do. They may be perfectly within their rights as a species to live on a diet of long pig, but as long as you're part of the human race, sympathy only goes so far. Understand the ghuls? Sure. Feeding is a part of nature. So is death. Fortunately, the scavenger ghuls do not present enough of a predatory threat to come to general humanity's attention.
And the wonderful circle of life, predator and prey, continues...
Though I have been known to say that humans need a predator other than themselves to thin the herd, but other than microbes and viri, we're short on that. We need a better vampire.
Mack
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Nope. Zombies. Takes out the Ghul and the Pinks at the same time. Actually, that might make for some amusing crossover fic: Kiernan Ghul vs. Romero Zombies. The Night Your Snack Snapped Back.
Brains!
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Indeed. Guaranteed.
Do we truly condemn the ghul for eating human flesh?
You know, I don't think I even want to ponder that rhetorical question.
Well, I don't. The ghouls aren't human, and condemning them for eating humans would be like condemning a lion for eating humans. Also, they tend to favour the flesh of already dead humans, and where's the harm in that? I addressed this issue in the afterword to the subpress edition of Low Red Moon, specifically as it pertains to Narcissa, concluding that I had trouble holding Narcissa to human codes of conduct as she wasn't precisely human.
I swear, my internal reading voice actually morphed from "Caitlin-voice" to "Xtian Children's Charities-Voice" to "Wilford Brimley-Voice" to "James Earl Jones-voice" while reading this. Very strange.
*snork*
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