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[theweaselking]

Cartoonist Dave "I fear women because sexual attraction makes my precious bodily fluids unclean" Sim on the topic of sickness and health:

"I'll trade you this recent thesis of mine for that one: most illhealth is actually demonic possession. I have come to believe thisbecause so many of my ailments tend to linger for long periods of timeand then vanish—poof!—just as suddenly as they arrived. One of thereasons that I resist seeking medical attention is that most doctorsare atheists, so I see them as being very much part of the demonicpossession construct (I tend to see hospitals as Disneyland for theInfernal). You go to the doctor or you go to the emergency ward andessentially you present yourself to the demonically possessed while youyourself are in mid-possession and basically agree to do whatever theysay. For some reason you've attracted a djinn within you and he'splaying hob with various parts of your anatomy and in such a way thatit will register on the various machines that doctors use to identifyspecific medical conditions. The doctor sees a dark spot on the X-Rayor a glitch in the CAT scan and, being demonically possessed, sees norecourse but to get in there with a knife or radiation and cut it outor burn it out. My own suspicion is that you would probably findevidence of a pre-cancerous tumour in just about anyone where you wouldcare to look for it depending on when you look for it."

PS: the sun is literally Hell, and souls go into the sun when they die.

Taken from nihilistic_kid, who, as a professional SFF editor, has a much higher tolerance for slushpile crap than me.

Comments

[lurkerwithout.livejournal.com]

I just read it via yendi. I'd heard Sims' was nuts. But this? This is beyond that...

[dorothy-parka.livejournal.com]

when i was a kid i thought the sun was hell. but then i became a godless heathen.

i'd say "poor dave" but he seems quite happy!

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

Well, that's one problem that can be exorcised by the Power of Darwin. (Or meds... but from the tenor of that quote, good luck on getting him to take them.)

-- Steve's looking out his window, and wishing he could see more of that ball of incandescing souls. Stoopid overcast...

[toku666.livejournal.com]

That paragraph alone really puts a lot of Cerebus in perspective.

[firebreathnchkn.livejournal.com]

The first few years of Cerebus were hysterical. He peaked in the series called High Society which is a nice balance of parody of other comics, social commentary, and political story-telling.

Then he found religion.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

And by "religion" you mean "his girlfriend left him because his schizophrenia is totally untreated and he turned deeply to irrational raving misogyny", and religion was natural next step.

[firebreathnchkn.livejournal.com]

And he found a flavor that matched his flavor of bat-shit crazy.

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that reminds me of some of the text pieces in the last years of Cerebus...

Sigh.