St Eligius
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Anyone read 'Surface Detail' yet?
Indeed I have
Have you heard who the poet at the end of the book is hinted at being?
Very interesting!
Anyone read 'Surface Detail' yet?
I don't think Elethiomel was necessarily crazy in the Hannibal Lector sense of the word, I agree he has done what he has HAD to do to bring the war to a conclusion, yes it is sick to make a chair out of a person, however is it any sicker than dropping the BOMB on Hiroshima, killing many innocent citizens in a painful way? This was also justified to win a war. I think Elethiomel was so sickened by doing this act of chairmaking that he did develop a split personality.
Some if it was also very funny - I laughed for ages at the bit where, just after he's been decapitated, the drone send him a gift of a hat!
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