Spartacus Road and The Onion

An early reader of my Spartacus Road suggested that I might have read - or might like to read - a story called "Die Zwiebel", The Onion, by the German artist and writer Kurt Schwitters.

 Its subject, he said, was the vivid butchering of the narrator's body followed by its reassembling with no apparent side effects.

 Just my kind of thing, he thought.

I hadn't read it. And I didn't take his advice. My personal experiences in this area, while not exactly as Schwitteresque as he was suggesting, ...