7 February 2013
Balance is ever so necessary in life, yet all things are constantly moving to a state of greater disorder. What this means, as the book of Job tells us, is that man is born to trouble, "...as the sparks fly upward."
Roger discovered this when he picked up a nasty social disease and things went from bad to worse. No fool he, Roger saw his doctor, and to treat his STD was given antibiotics, several courses actually as his infection proved quite stubborn.
Now bacteria and fungi exist in dynamic equilibrium on the surface of human skin, but thankfully are microscopic organisms so we don't freak out over their presence. The one keeps the other in balance, which is well and good as long as equilibrium is maintained. Unfortunately, the antibiotics his doctor had given him killed off many of the probiotic bacteria on his skin, causing Roger to develop killer cases of athlete's foot and jock itch as fungus assumed dominance on his epidermis. Embarrassed by his jock itch and uncertain about what was going on, Roger failed to see his physician, and his fungal infection became, err, quite consuming...and so for that matter, did Roger himself.
Fungi, you see, consume organic matter, and after the fungus had utterly consumed Roger himself, it maintained his shape and appearance but went looking for other things to eat, finding an abundant supply of organic material on the hoof in the dating pool. Poor Roger had lost himself in passion, going from being hormones with legs to being a fungus with one, and sadly his one-night stands will now never be found. Love, they say, is a consuming fire...
Equilibrium • Opuss № I