Is this going in the “mutates into a super villain” direction? I don’t mind. Far from corny, that is a mythic pattern. As Silas Marner slowly transforms into a spiderlike form at his loom, so modern heroes and anti-heroes suddenly manifest externally what was slowly developing internally for many years, triggered by radiation, genetic engineering, or other poorly understood agents of change.
David Nuttall
on April 26, 2020 at 11:40 am
Ah, when I first read “I am a very green candidate,” I was thinking he meant green in the context of inexperienced, a greenhorn, not referring to green as in environmentally-conscious. I mean, I think this is supposed to be the first time he is running of public office, well at least since the fall of Nazi Germany.
SeanR
on May 7, 2020 at 12:41 pm
Days after reading this the first time, I suddenly recalled that Hitler thought of himself as a vegetarian. Somehow, this is fitting.
Is this going in the “mutates into a super villain” direction? I don’t mind. Far from corny, that is a mythic pattern. As Silas Marner slowly transforms into a spiderlike form at his loom, so modern heroes and anti-heroes suddenly manifest externally what was slowly developing internally for many years, triggered by radiation, genetic engineering, or other poorly understood agents of change.
Ah, when I first read “I am a very green candidate,” I was thinking he meant green in the context of inexperienced, a greenhorn, not referring to green as in environmentally-conscious. I mean, I think this is supposed to be the first time he is running of public office, well at least since the fall of Nazi Germany.
Days after reading this the first time, I suddenly recalled that Hitler thought of himself as a vegetarian. Somehow, this is fitting.