Issue 256

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July 2000: Going Home 25

Issue 256
President	Dave Sim
Vice-President	Gerhard
Administrative Assistant	Carol West
Proofreading	Diana Schutz
Cover Photo	Rose Kragiel
Going Home: Form & Void
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1 Issue Summary
2 Characters
3 Locations
4 Artist Notes

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Issue Summary

Mary’s story of their hunting safari to Africa starts. She tells how they meet up with their gun-toters. They start their loin hunt with a piece of zebra carcass as bait in a tree and we meet Percy, their “white hunter”. Ham shoots a lion and later Mary and him eat some of the lion, and Percy declines their offer of lion meat as it is taboo, which Mary says they never explained to her, in Kenja for natives and the whites to eat lion meat.

We also meet Denis, their game warden. They hunt gazelles for meat, but Mary thinks it really is for her to practice. Mary always misses and thinks “it is lonely being the only incompetent here.” Mary finally shoots her first gazelle and feels ashamed, sorry and pleased. Afterwards she has a dream of shooting a warthog. The next to be hunted is zebra, of which Mary misses and Ham and Denis shoot one immediately. They catch sight of a lion and the hunt for it begins.

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