Okay everybody, we had a good time talking about dongers and hoohahs and what have you, but now it's time to remember that we're all going to die and there's not a damn thing any of us is going to do about it, and if you can't deal with it, just go ahead and go crazy. Why not? It went well enough for Newberg, the aging taxidermist at the heart of this week's story from Not Tube. Inside his head, the chattering of stuffed animals fleshes out the various subsets of a broken man's mind.
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This story was just phenomenal *wild, hysterical applause* :D :D :D
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ReplyDeleteThe story was excellent and read very well. (I know a little about taxidermy, and appreciated the details. They helped me identify with the main character.)
ReplyDeleteThe commentary, as is usually the case, was equally enjoyable. I was impressed by your familiarity with T. Roosevelt, and the social history of natural history museums and scientific preservation.
I once dabbled in entomology, and I have a fondness for vials of preservatives and the uniquely 19th century Victorian ambiance of natural history collections.
I agree that the ecological angle was overdone, and it seemed to distract from the story's main concern with the main character's internal life.
We've largely outsourced that kind of unregulated chemical industry to other countries, anyway. The ecological problems in this country are more subtle (i.e. runoff, endocrine toxins).