Talk:Azibo Painfeast

Inneresting name; I'm wondering if it's a reference to Book of the New Sun? There's.. some sort of creature (Wolfe's writing is dense and bleh) called an "analeptic alzebo" that eats human remains for their memories (or.. something; again, dense style). "Azibo" + *feast seems to fit, there. Could just be coincidence. --Nunix 22:45, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Synced with RawDump. --MasterPatricko 16:40, 3 October 2006 (CDT)

Analeptic Alzebo
Analeptic is a medicine, a restorative. Alzebo is the name of the fictitious animal in Gene Wolfe's wonderful book. In the book the "analeptic alzebo" is the medicine made from a gland of the alzebo which allows humans to experience the memories of the corpse which is eaten with the drug. Wierd? Yes. But nevertheless a book with extremely well produced imagery: The Book of the New Sun. The animal, which had been brought to earth in the past, can retain some memories of its prey, and thus can mimic that prey's behavior helping it to catch, and eat, more of the same kind.