6 thoughts on “Bait: Page Eighty-Eight

    • It would not surprise me if they recruited with that in mind, for… extra special shows.

    • Dr Faustus’ works exhibit a fluid boundary between life and death. The philosophy student who turns her professor into a statue at Gnosis College is only one example.

      • I have several times started, then abandoned, but might eventually finish, a whole manifesto on the subject. It all begins with an observation in Edgar Allan Poe’s Philosophy of Composition. It bespeaks an obsession that most people would find unwholesome, perhaps even repellent, but what can I say? It’s how the Artifex made me.

  1. It seems to me that, as with the flesh-eating gel, there is a low-level telepathic signal conditioning the women’s minds to accept and even desire the prospect of being devoured. But does the creature only digest bodies? If it absorbs minds—souls—and incorporates them into its own, then it wouldn’t necessarily be a ‘he’, but rather, a she.

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