The "vomiting instead of excreting" thing is discussed in The Planiverse, though the author came up with another answer - a thing he described as a "zipper organ" along the gut which meant that his 2D creatures could eat at one end and excrete at the other without falling apart.
Like the fine details of how sight works, I'll probably be discussing the Flatland version of digestion etc. in the scientific section. I'm waiting to read Iain Sinclair's "Flatterland" first, since he's the kind of guy who thinks of this sort of thing and may have answers to a lot of the technical problems we're discussing. If so I'll need to contact him about using them - fortunately we've met a few times so hopefully he'd be willing to go along with it for a charity project.
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Date: 2006-05-14 09:21 pm (UTC)Like the fine details of how sight works, I'll probably be discussing the Flatland version of digestion etc. in the scientific section. I'm waiting to read Iain Sinclair's "Flatterland" first, since he's the kind of guy who thinks of this sort of thing and may have answers to a lot of the technical problems we're discussing. If so I'll need to contact him about using them - fortunately we've met a few times so hopefully he'd be willing to go along with it for a charity project.