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Inside the Worm

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Inside the Worm	label	Inside the Worm
Inside the Worm	page	InsideTheWorm
Inside the Worm	comment	Inside the Worm is a 1994 novel by Robert Swindells.As the small town of Elsworth nears its thousandth anniversary of the martyrdom of resident Saint Ceridwen, Mr Hepworth tasks Year Eight to stage a re-enactment of the Saint's banishment of the Elsworth Worm, and subsequent martyrdom by vikings. As the class arranges a cast of villagers and vikings, with Fliss Morgan in the role of Ceridwen, David "Trot" Trotter, Lisa Watmaugh, Ellie May Sutherland and Gary Bazzard begin work on a costume replica of the legendary dragon.The ease of its construction amazes all involved. While Fliss reflects uneasily on the fatalistic appearance of this, the Worm's builders thrill at the remarkable ease with which they inhabit and operate it. Their shared thrall spurs them to acts of mounting hooliganism. The thrill is so intoxicating that their strangely shared view through only two eyeholes hardly seems to matter...
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Inside the Worm	processingComment	Dropped link to TheLambtonWorm: Not a Feature - ITEM
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Inside the Worm / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Inside the Worm / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Ellie May specifically compares her Worm-induced hooliganism to Ronnie's alcoholism.
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Inside the Worm / int_234073a4	type	Your Mind Makes It Real
Inside the Worm / int_234073a4	comment	Your Mind Makes It Real: The crafters and operators of the Worm are rather taken aback by the ease and effectiveness of their efforts. When rampaging in it, all four operators see through its eyes, and leave giant saurian footprints.
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Inside the Worm / int_25208c30	type	Go Through Me
Inside the Worm / int_25208c30	comment	Go Through Me: On the final day of the festival, Fliss throws herself at the Worm, which frustrates its target range.
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Inside the Worm / int_2a6ed9ec	type	Dragons Are Demonic
Inside the Worm / int_2a6ed9ec	comment	Dragons Are Demonic: This particular dragon gradually retains corporeality by stirring hatred in those who inhabit its papier mache likeness.
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Inside the Worm / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Inside the Worm / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Invoked by Year Eight's decision to depict Ceridwen's martyrdom in serene silence.
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Inside the Worm / int_39de5d91	type	TheCuckooLanderWasRight
Inside the Worm / int_39de5d91	comment	The Cuckoo Lander Was Right: Local drunk Ronnie Millhouse, prone to hallucination, suddenly sees, instead of small pink lizards, a gigantic green one...
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Inside the Worm / int_51a3ba7	type	We Used to Be Friends
Inside the Worm / int_51a3ba7	comment	We Used to Be Friends: Lisa, in thrall to the spell of the Worm, and angered by report of her sudden tendency to bullying, coldly renounces her friendship with Fliss. They all make up eventually.
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Inside the Worm / int_5290f613	type	A FÃªte Worse than Death
Inside the Worm / int_5290f613	comment	A Fête Worse than Death: At the eventual town festival, following the start of Year Eight's re-enactment, a suddenly very real dragon goes on a brief, potentially lethal rampage.
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Inside the Worm / int_57cf76a1	type	Hate Plague
Inside the Worm / int_57cf76a1	comment	Hate Plague: The operators of the Worm find themselves irresistibly drawn to acts of vandalism, hooliganism and animal cruelty.
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Inside the Worm / int_658a406d	type	Not Too Dead to Save the Day
Inside the Worm / int_658a406d	comment	Not Too Dead to Save the Day: On the Worm's furious emergence from the marquee, Fliss finds herself compelled by a strange urge to distract it from its intended victims. This is implied to be instilled by the spirit of Ceridwen.
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Inside the Worm / int_6c4ed101	type	Breath Weapon
Inside the Worm / int_6c4ed101	comment	Breath Weapon: The Worm breathes fire.
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Inside the Worm / int_7043a964	type	Grammar Nazi
Inside the Worm / int_7043a964	comment	Grammar Nazi: Mrs Evans chides Trot for saying "ta" as opposed to "thank you."
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Inside the Worm / int_8c4bafff	type	Holy Burns Evil
Inside the Worm / int_8c4bafff	comment	Holy Burns Evil: The faith of Saint Ceridwen rendered the Worm docile, whereupon it retreated to the fen. This may also be the case with Fliss protectively throwing herself into the Worm's path, whereupon it loses its hold on the costume and operators.
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Inside the Worm / int_95680e79	type	Cardboard Box Home
Inside the Worm / int_95680e79	comment	Cardboard Box Home: Homeless drunk Ronnie Milhouse sleeps in the park balistrand, with newspapers for bedsheets.
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Inside the Worm / int_979f41a	type	Continuity Reboot
Inside the Worm / int_979f41a	comment	Continuity Reboot: Possibly. While the story revisits the main cast of Room 13, the class is referred to as Year Eight rather than Second Year, and no obvious mention is made of the previous book's vampiric adventure.
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Inside the Worm / int_9d0586e1	type	Our Werebeasts Are Different
Inside the Worm / int_9d0586e1	comment	Our Were Beasts Are Different: Construction and habitation of a papier mache-headed dragon costume under deliberately beneficial circumstances instils in its thirteen-year-old operators a love of violence, pursuit of which briefly imbues both them and the costume with the attributes of an actual dragon.
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Inside the Worm / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Inside the Worm / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Once the thrill of a nightly rampage wears off, Ellie May sadly reflects on the senseless cruelty of trampling the parkkeeper's prize tulips.
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Inside the Worm / int_a7e51632	type	Legend
Inside the Worm / int_a7e51632	comment	Legend: While the martyrdom of Ceridwen is (in the story) historically accepted, the Worm is thought to be legend.
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Inside the Worm / int_a939a527	type	Red Eyes, Take Warning
Inside the Worm / int_a939a527	comment	Red Eyes, Take Warning: Invoked by a pair of car reflectors which serve as the Worm's eyes.
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Inside the Worm / int_a9c0f93f	type	Fun-Hating Confiscating Adult
Inside the Worm / int_a9c0f93f	comment	Fun-Hating Confiscating Adult: Park-keeper Percy Waterhouse fervently rebukes any pubescent user of the swings or roundabout.
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Inside the Worm / int_be9b0535	type	Home Base
Inside the Worm / int_be9b0535	comment	Home Base: The Worm operators meet in Trot's parents' garage.
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Inside the Worm / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Inside the Worm / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The terrorising of a medieval village by a serpentine dragon recalls The Lambton Worm, while its banishment by the faith of a latterly martyred hero somewhat evokes Beowulf. The mounting aggression of several adolescents, roused by a bestial emblem (albeit here, a genuinely supernatural one) recalls Lord of the Flies.
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Inside the Worm / int_cd809603	type	Tank Goodness
Inside the Worm / int_cd809603	comment	Tank Goodness: Ultimately subverted. On the last day of the festival, several soldiers in charge of a displayed armoured personnel carrier attempt to ram the rampaging Worm. The narration notes this to be a good idea, but two terrified civilians drive off with it.
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Inside the Worm / int_cff9745d	type	Regularly Scheduled Evil
Inside the Worm / int_cff9745d	comment	Regularly Scheduled Evil: A thousand years following the banishment of the Worm, it awaits opportunity to rampage once more via the corrupted minds and possessed bodies of several adolescents. Inverted with a sudden instinctive resolve of Fliss, implied to have been instilled by the spirit of Ceridwen, to confront the beast.
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Inside the Worm / int_d02a0c91	type	There Are No Coincidences
Inside the Worm / int_d02a0c91	comment	There Are No Coincidences: The ease of the Worm's construction, which includes acquisition of car reflectors for eyes and a green cinema curtain for a body, seems ominously deliberate.
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Inside the Worm / int_d2102da0	type	Bad People Abuse Animals
Inside the Worm / int_d2102da0	comment	Bad People Abuse Animals: Under the malign influence of the Worm, its operators burn to death several kept pigeons.
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Inside the Worm / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Inside the Worm / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Mr Hepworth can be a bit strict, but has a sense of humour, and lends a kindly ear to Fliss's worries. The Reverend Toby East calmly chastises an act of hooliganism by citing the potential fatalities.
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Inside the Worm / int_f01a54f1	type	Evil Feels Good
Inside the Worm / int_f01a54f1	comment	Evil Feels Good: The thrill of building the Worm is followed by exhilaration at the remarkable ease in piloting it, and then an exultancy in using it to terrorise and destroy.
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Inside the Worm / int_f8f71b5f	type	Buried Alive
Inside the Worm / int_f8f71b5f	comment	Buried Alive: The night before the festival, Fliss has a brutally realistic such dream.
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