THE DEEP ONES: "The Vegetable Man" by Luigi Ugolini
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1gwendetenebre
"The Vegetable Man" by Luigi Ugolini
Discussion begins January 17, 2024.
First published published in the 1917 issue of Giornale Illustrato dei Viaggi e delle Avventure di Terra e di Mare (The Illustrated Journal of Travel and Adventure Over Land and Sea).
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https://isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1439439
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The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories
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https://weirdfictionreview.com/2012/09/weirdfictionreview-coms-101-weird-writers...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Ugolini
http://tinyurl.com/4h35vkb8
Discussion begins January 17, 2024.
First published published in the 1917 issue of Giornale Illustrato dei Viaggi e delle Avventure di Terra e di Mare (The Illustrated Journal of Travel and Adventure Over Land and Sea).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
https://isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1439439
SELECTED PRINT VERSIONS
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories
ONLINE VERSIONS
No online versions found to date..
ONLINE AUDIO VERSIONS
No online audio versions found to date.
MISCELLANY
https://weirdfictionreview.com/2012/09/weirdfictionreview-coms-101-weird-writers...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Ugolini
http://tinyurl.com/4h35vkb8
2AndreasJ
This offered few surprises*, but I thought it a nice variation on the baleful transformation theme.
* The one big surprise was a Brazilian in Italy speaking to a fellow countryman in Spanish. There being nothing in the story to explain it or indicate that it’s weird, I guess Ugolini must have been confused or ignorant about the main language of Brazil.
* The one big surprise was a Brazilian in Italy speaking to a fellow countryman in Spanish. There being nothing in the story to explain it or indicate that it’s weird, I guess Ugolini must have been confused or ignorant about the main language of Brazil.
3RandyStafford
It wasn't a novel idea when Ugolini did it. (At the very least, William Hope Hodgson beat him to the man turns into plant idea with The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'.) But Ugolini, I suspect, is one of the first to use it.
We've become so inured to the novelty of the idea after more than a century that the story doesn't have a lot of emotional power. However, I think, when you contemplate the "king of the jungle" staring out into the green and waiting to transform you, it has some intellectual frisson.
We've become so inured to the novelty of the idea after more than a century that the story doesn't have a lot of emotional power. However, I think, when you contemplate the "king of the jungle" staring out into the green and waiting to transform you, it has some intellectual frisson.
