Nesacat
The Cat
In Fred Chappell's short story The Adder, we have a book that changes and effectively oblierates any book it comes into contact with.
The book or The Adder as it were is The Necronomicon in the original Arabic and in the short story, it is placed at the bottom of a book case next to a battered copy of John Milton's verse.
The Necronomicon here behaves as a vampire would and slowly the words of the poem change. The change is not only in this one copy but in every single copy in existence across the world as well as in the minds of everyone who has ever read it or who remembers. It's as if the original never was.
So ... what would you place The Adder next to?
The book or The Adder as it were is The Necronomicon in the original Arabic and in the short story, it is placed at the bottom of a book case next to a battered copy of John Milton's verse.
The Necronomicon here behaves as a vampire would and slowly the words of the poem change. The change is not only in this one copy but in every single copy in existence across the world as well as in the minds of everyone who has ever read it or who remembers. It's as if the original never was.
So ... what would you place The Adder next to?