My feeling is that cannibalism doesn't turn one into an ogre. Perhaps it might reveal your true nature: that you were an ogre that had hidden it from yourself! That is, in some ways perhaps, more frightening. Here's a story idea. Some desperate person resorts to cannibalism, survives, thinks that he has not turned into an ogre, realises that he enjoyed human flesh and did not turn into a monster. Continued eating human flesh even when he did not need to. Thinks that he has not turned into a monster. He has turned into a monster.
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> On 11/26/2011 2:25 PM, Peter Larsen wrote:
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> > > Hence the link between the chaotic nature of Ogres and cannibalism isn't very strong.
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> > The connection between Ogres and cannibalism is stronger than that.
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> I'm not denying that Ogres have a reputation for cannibalism. I'm
> denying that their cannibalism is the _cause_ of their chaotic nature.
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> --Peter Metcalfe
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