03-02-2012, 04:42 AM
I think "what if" is license enough to speculate as you please about the
"soul" thing. But sturgeons don't make for a good "unaffected by death"
metaphor. Not when they're being hunted to extinction and just saying
their name calls up visions of slit bellies bleeding caviar. Hmmm, wait,
maybe there's something to that metaphor after all. Souls emanating
from our slit bellies, Russian deamons paying top dollar...
a brightly colored fungus that grows in bark inclusions