> **
>
> 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.
>
Sure; if that's what you like. My question then is: what makes the idea so
unattractive? Also, why did the Ogres become Ogres in the Darkness? If it
wasn't eating other humans for sustenance, then what explanation gives a
better story?
Peter Larsen
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