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Baa: The adventures of a gentleman cannibal
"On the creamy skin of these pristine pages, I lay my flat black slug of a secret to trail its mucused path. Passing through nature, I once ate a man..."
It is 1891 and modern times require modern remedies. Count Friedryk Baa Mindeberg hobbles through middle age on the crutch of reason. No other Scandinavian biologist has as firm a grasp on toads or Africa as he. No other biologist has taken such extreme excursions with flesh.
Baa is the most scrupulous of scientists. He selected his wife after long and fastidious ethnographic research into the tribe of women. His home is an inventor's paradise, replete with a mechanical marital bed, hydraulic pillows and electric water-closet. Yet beneath the crust of domestic logic, reason begins to crumble.
It doesn't help that Baa is working his way alphabetically through the Pharmacopeia, dosing himself with every drug en route.
It is 1891 and modern times require modern remedies. Count Friedryk Baa Mindeberg hobbles through middle age on the crutch of reason. No other Scandinavian biologist has as firm a grasp on toads or Africa as he. No other biologist has taken such extreme excursions with flesh.
Baa is the most scrupulous of scientists. He selected his wife after long and fastidious ethnographic research into the tribe of women. His home is an inventor's paradise, replete with a mechanical marital bed, hydraulic pillows and electric water-closet. Yet beneath the crust of domestic logic, reason begins to crumble.
It doesn't help that Baa is working his way alphabetically through the Pharmacopeia, dosing himself with every drug en route.
155 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 21, 2011
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About the author
Christopher Wilson
9 books15 followersChristopher Wilson has written several novels, including - Gallimauf's Gospel, Baa, Blueglass, Mischief, Fou, The Wurd, The Ballad of Lee Cotton, Nookie, and The Zoo. His work has been translated into several languages, adapted for the stage, long-listed for the Booker Prize, twice shortlisted for the Whitbread Fiction Prize, and shortlisted for the Historical Writers Association Gold Crown.
Chris wrote a doctorate on the psychology of humour at The London School of Economics, worked as a research psychologist at University College London, The London Hospital and The Arts Council, and lectured for ten years at London University Goldsmiths College. He has taught creative writing in prisons, at university and for The Arvon Foundation.
Chris wrote a doctorate on the psychology of humour at The London School of Economics, worked as a research psychologist at University College London, The London Hospital and The Arts Council, and lectured for ten years at London University Goldsmiths College. He has taught creative writing in prisons, at university and for The Arvon Foundation.
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January 14, 2019
A wonderful first person account of Fredryck's life, starting with his memories of eating a man when he was an explorer in the jungle. What a character Count Fredryck Baa Mindeberg is, he is short, bald and has one foot. We learn the most about him through his wife's character, her one word answers and how she deals with the mechanical bed that Baa has invented to 'manage' their marriage. Very funny, beautifully written and delightful.
February 4, 2008
A graphic work reminesent of "soylent green" but with humor and sheep.
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