XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk   
   From: mimus99@gmail.com   
      
   On Mon, 26 Jun 2017 02:50:49 +0000 (UTC), Contrarian wrote:   
      
   > In alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk mimus99  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Seems Northern California got a lot of warm rain in December, which gave   
   >> 'em a bumper-crop of _ Amanita phalloides _, which took fourteen people out   
   >> (one died).   
      
   Cali has about 50 cases per year on average, one death every other year,   
   liver-transplants frequently indicated.   
      
   >  so what's with the omelets?   
   >   
   >  they put the mushrooms in the omelets?   
      
   Sure, Amanitas are fine big flashy fleshy tasty 'shrooms, excellent in   
   omelets.   
      
   It's just that several species are deadly.   
      
   (And two, muscaria and pantherina, are psychedelic, or at least delirium-   
   and seizure-inducing.)   
      
   >  ISTR PKD named two entities*  in one novel (I can't quite   
   >  recall which)  Amalita and Borel.  Changed one letter in   
   >  each mushroom name.   
   >   
   >  He had to turn them out quickly.   
      
   All PKD novels are the same novel, Ubik, except for Clans of the Alphane   
   Moon.   
      
   --   
      
   I love Clans: Psychic Jovian slime-molds 'n' all.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)