Elwood. INSIDE THE VENUS FLYTRAP CARNIVOROUS PLANTS MUST BE ABLE TO • ATTRACT INSECTS • CAPTURE BUGS • DISCRIMINATE BETWEEN FOOD AND NOT FOOD • DIGEST THEIR PREY Despite his rudimentary skill with “visualizing the narrative,” as Dr. Elwood had referred to it, it was hard for Marcus not to feel a little envious of the line to get into the Alamo. After breakfast and a quick stroll along the River Walk, Maria had suggested hitting the Alamo early so that they could avoid the midday heat. The Alamo at nine in the morning had more visitors than Marcus had drawn in his first month. Though a part of him understood that a standoff ending in bloody annihilation was a bigger draw than some oddity of nature, Marcus still considered the flytrap to be—as Dr. Elwood had claimed he needed to “make” it—sexy. What was sexy about slaughter, about bullets ricocheting off adobe? The flytrap was the very definition of sex: attract, capture, discriminate, devour. “Remember that scene in Giant where Elizabeth Taylor tells Rock Hudson at the breakfast table that she’d stayed up all night reading about Texas and it was clear to her that Texas was stolen from Mexico?”
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