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Originally Posted by DEATHOFRATS
I am reading 'The Truth' and it refers to Mr. Tulip taking slab, a troll drug. While it does seem to have an averse effect, he still is alive afterwards. Why didn't the slab kill him?
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Basically because he is not a troll, I'd say.
This is why I think so:
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Currently he was experimenting with the whole range of recreational chemicals available to Ankh-Morpork's troll population, because at least when dealing with trolls Mr Tulip had a moderate chance of outsmarting somebody. In theory Slab and Honk shouldn't have any effect on the human brain, apart from maybe dissolving it. Mr Tulip was hanging in there. He'd tried normality once and hadn't liked it.
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Maybe the dissolving bit refers to the "cutting the stuff with grounded glass", which is mentioned a few lines earlier in reference to another troll drug, maybe -and that's just a theory- drugs for mineral based life forms like troll contain, say, stuff like sulfur. This quote would support the theory:
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His partner had bought a twist of what the dealer had sworn was devil dust but which looked to Mr Pin very much like powdered copper sulphate, and this had apparently reacted with the chemicals from the Slab which had been Mr Tulip's afternoon snack and turned one of his sinuses into a small bag of electricity. His right eye was spinning slowly, and sparks twinkled on his nasal hairs.
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But obviously, no real effect is to be expected at all, if what the human in question tries is really just slab.