Comments | wulfboy: Sick In The Head

wulfboy

Sick In The Head

Mar 02, 2006 17:04

Sickness. For some reason, it's a theme I keep coming back to. Whether it's the "...and..." joke made so often during tabletop D&D* or the whole Mutant Weils Disease Vampire-live story, through Mage and Cthulhu and Kult and Ars magica ... basically every game I've ever been involved in has at some point or another a disease motif (and in many ( Read more... )

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marcushill March 2 2006, 17:28:03 UTC

BAN THIS SICK FILTH!

wulfboy March 2 2006, 17:41:53 UTC

Sickness = filth / filth = sickness. Dirty wounds. Dirty slut. Filth-fever. Dirty, rat-infested Jews. Sewers = sub-basements of the mind. Diseased Id infecting/insulating higher self. Filth = evil.

Ban = suppression not cure. Sickness posponed. Kill the disease now and in ten years it comes back different and virulent.

ash1977law March 2 2006, 18:27:30 UTC

Hmm... the illness has improved your writing style. I propose to send you packets of dubious powders.

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wulfboy March 2 2006, 20:08:31 UTC

Your philosophy intrigues me; I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Intellectually I know that spiders eat pests and think only good thoughts. But I also know that the only reason they don't eat humans is because they are too small.

Squids come from the illimitable gulfs. Squid = illithid space aliens. Also, the tentacle is a weird and unnatural limb-structure in my mind.

bacony March 3 2006, 07:53:34 UTC

Nah, spiders are not squids. I like the spiders, and I enjoy eating the squids. I do not enjoy eating the spiders, although I have never tried them deep fried in batter, so that might be why.

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wulfboy March 2 2006, 20:09:32 UTC

Chortle.

wulfboy March 2 2006, 20:11:23 UTC

The king and the land are one - the sickness of one affects the other and vice versa. Sick society leads to sick country, and the two sicknesses feed on one another. A sick mind infects a sick body, and again vice versa. The sickness of the mind in the insane ruler is reflected in the physical sickness of the land. Sickness is fecund decay or unhealthful growth.

The grail is water - and I like my water imagery - sewers can be corrupt water (and the bowels) or possibly healthy water - removing the sick waste products. Are the bowels innately suspect because they are filthy?

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rob_e_coyote March 3 2006, 05:25:17 UTC

But an attitude to sickness is entirely relative. For many, the short term sicknesses are all they really suffer. They are short, sharp reminders of mortality that lead to greater thinking of the horrors they can inflict if they continue. But what of people whose very lives are 'sickness'? For people who have to live with a sickness every second of every day, it may be a different story. The thoughts you have when ill, the horrors that play over and over in your mind, these are things people who are 'permanently' sick have had to think *all* the time. While the horror is not any less for them, they have become so inured to the thoughts of such, that it no longer truly bothers them as much as for 'normal, healthy people ( ... )