Wednesday, October 19, 2011
The Wub Tastes Delicious Apparently
"Beyond Lies the Wub" by Phillip K. Dick was very interesting. It was a really short story about a black market animal trading ship, at least I presume it was black market at least. After a successful deal, Captain Franco sees one of his crew, Peterson, leading what he called a 'Wub' by a rope. the Wub resembles a really fat, disgusting looking pig. Peterson got it from the Natives for fifty cents. Nice deal. He takes it aboard the ship and the Captain got it in his head that they can use it for food. According to the Natives, it has a very good taste. The Captain and the crew are discussing how it should be cooked when the Wub states his displeasure of the current conversation topic and suggests they move on to another. The story was good, and also had an ambiguous ending, which was expected. The only thing I didn't like was the lack of description of the crew and the ship. The only thing the author went into detail on was the Wub.
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Isn't the story about the Wub? The details focus on it, because the only way it can continue living/reproducing is by being eaten and transforming the predator into a Wub as well. Your post was an entertaining read.
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