Well now, it gets better and better, doesn’t it?
But first to Science Corner. A long time ago some people we know spent a delightful summer in the family villa on the Algarve and came back to England
to find that their big chest freezer had broken down during their months away. It took, presumably, a certain amount of
courage to open the lid.
Over supper one of us asked how bad it had been.
“Horrific,” said the husband, who could see the funny side of it but clearly didn't like the memory, “but it was
also sort of weird.”
“Maggots? Stuff like that? Writhing?”
“No, no,” he said, “no maggots, no creepy crawlies. It’s just…” he struggled for the
words, “…the food had all disappeared except
for this layer of a kind of sludge at the bottom. But climbing up from the sludge and along
the sides were these sort of jungle moulds unlike anything I’ve ever seen since, most of them huge – saucer sized – and in
these extraordinary colours, sometimes vivid, sometimes a mixture of grey and
pink, like dead flesh.”
“Jesus Christ.”
“It really was like stuff from outer space, like huge
flowers but looking like they had an animal component, spreading out these repulsive
tendrils from a sweaty core.” He paused and closed his eyes. "And along the underside of the lid by my hands."
“What did you do?”
“Do? I put the lid down again. It went that afternoon.”
Funny, I hadn’t thought of that in years but something prompted
my memory the other day...vivid, a mixture of grey and pink, like dead flesh…huge flowers but an animal component…spreading
out these repulsive tendrils from a sweaty core…climbing up out of the sludge...what was it?
Ah, yes
Definitely
And so it is
You poor, hollowed out, totally corrupted, creature
Just look at yourself
