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1. LEG

   A strikingly effective leanness of prose by Evenson even for him, even-legged, dead-handed and deadpan. A story about Hekla who became captain of the ship after finding independently conscious and motive-forced ‘Leg’ to replace her real leg lost in an accident. The machinations of what quest they embark on together (along with the crew) involves blood, inside-outness and the leggy offshoot’s adoption of their common enforced enemy. 

   This work also seems to create much mutual synergy very neatly with an utterly different prose-styled and plotted story that I happened to read and review a few hours ago (here) about the equivalently independent conscious and motive-forced human tongue and its tyranny! And ‘lie’ and ‘leg’ are both three-letter words that share two of those letters…!