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Alien disease is like AIDS. Is it an accident that Saul, the guy who got turned into the master alien, was a homosexual? No. The alien disease that turned people into monsters was a metaphor for AIDS. AIDS transforms cells in the body just as the alien disease did. This is a story about the dangers of gay sex and AIDS. When the Biologist gave Saul a blowjob she caught it from him, and turned into a monster.

 

Some people don't mind risking their lives for science. One team after another was killed in Area X, but more kept coming. The Psychologist went there twice, without any protection. No one seemed to worry about dying or turning into an alien monster. They were so concerned about finding "meaning" that their own safety meant nothing to them. How unrealistic is that?

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The Tower is a living v_gina. We are told repeatedly how the Tower is alive, the Tower has walls of flesh, the Tower is breathing, how the tower creates alien life. In short, the Tower is a big alien v_gina.

 

The nature of existence is profound. This book spends a lot of time with pseudo-intellectual about the meaning of existence, pages and pages of it. It's all meant to be very profound! And all very meaningless.

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