However, talking severed heads are a major part in Celtic mythology which features in the novel, and can be found Wales' The Mabonogi, Scottish and Irish legend so Lewis is referring to earlier tropes, much as with Merlin. When Mark Gainsby Studdock becomes propagandist for the N.I.C.E., one of his first tasks is to write a piece exonerating Alcasan, who had previously been referred to as a Bluebeard in the press.Īlcasan is of Algerian extraction, and the surname is of Arabic language origin.Īlcasan as "the Head" is partly a pun on the name of a position in academia. These in turn lead her to the psychologist Grace Ironwood and the St. Jane Tudor Studdock has eerie dreams about the Head, which make her think she is becoming mentally unwell. and appears to be being kept alive by the technology of man, and regular infusions of blood, while in reality he is just a communication mechanism for the Macrobes who despise mankind and the Earth. Alcasan's severed head is recovered by the N.I.C.E. " The Head", was a French scientist guillotined for murdering his wife.
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