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To: Grainne who wrote (9514)	4/9/1998 12:02:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Respond to of 71178

Escape. Run away. The thread seems to have gone to the devil dogs. A mass delusion is gripping some of the formerly pottytrained regulars, and they see Bilbo. I suspect a parasitic ailment. In Asia, there is a fungus whose spore lodges within the airpipes of an ant. A large solitary ant. The fungus takes hold and sends tendrils into the teensy brain of the ant. This hapless insect, ordinarily a ground forager, is possessed of a sudden and compelling interest in climbing. It finds a tree and makes its unsteady way up, until it just can't move anymore. Then its mandibles lock in a death spasm on a twig. A month or so later, a fruiting body emerges from the lifeless husk of the ant. It drops more spores toward the savage leaf litter. I never realized Jfred was such a good climber.