“Justin Smith-Ruiu’s speculative fiction is consistently as sumptuous as it is demanding.” —Dmitri Bezglazov, The Oort Cloud Review Do you agree with what they’re writing about me in The Oort Cloud Review? Click here to show your support. Never say never. Until a few years ago I never thought my partner and I would end up installing a Gro-Pad in front of our open window in the early springtime, when the Zephyr begins to blow in from the East, hoping to trap a little one to call our own. Yet there we were, both our biological clocks run down, more or less stuck with this small strip of gauze, like the absorbent pad in a package of fresh fish that soaks up excess fluids and that always somehow makes me lose my appetite, as the lone remaining method if we wished to start a family.
This reminded me of the claim of Wilhelm Reich to have discovered 'Bions' - "transitional forms in the process of the organization of matter from its non-living to its living state.... [sharing] common qualitative traits as regards to pulsation and motility, which point to their living-like functioning..." Reich further claimed that "the long term culture of organic bions, under controlled sterile conditions so that the possibility of outside infection (from air “germs”) is excluded, can lead to the development of protozoa."
You may dismiss me as a middle brow, but that would make
a great Twilight Zone episode. Love your fiction.
This reminded me of the claim of Wilhelm Reich to have discovered 'Bions' - "transitional forms in the process of the organization of matter from its non-living to its living state.... [sharing] common qualitative traits as regards to pulsation and motility, which point to their living-like functioning..." Reich further claimed that "the long term culture of organic bions, under controlled sterile conditions so that the possibility of outside infection (from air “germs”) is excluded, can lead to the development of protozoa."
Such had been debunked as the observation of mere Brownian Motion. Reich still has his advocates, however, from whom I quote: https://wilhelmreich.gr/en/orgonomy/orgonomy-and-biogenesis/bions/
Terry and Sam are so ambiguous. The morality of their predicament, so ambiguous. Where chemistry ends and life begins is most ambiguous.
Sumptuous never presumptuous Justin Smith-Ruiu