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Blood Club, Featuring Big Baby

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This is archetypal burns. In this case, one of his favourite characters, Big Baby, is sent to summer camp where amongst a population of mainly pre-pubescent boys he discovers sex and becomes caught up in its mysteries. Compounding the usual mysteries surrounding sex is the secret being kept hidden by one of the camp's counsellors. Big Baby does wind up solving the camp's secret, however, being an innocent, Big Baby does not come out of his experience fully comprehending what has just happened.

Although the adult reader will no longer find so much of what is happening to Big Baby mysterious, Burns manages to make us remember what it was like living in a world where much was hidden from us by adults and a sense of mystery underlied much of day-to-day life; a time when dirty jokes were something you laughed at nervously because you understood their taboo nature, but did not fully comprehend what they meant. And the reader is left wondering whether or not it is a good thing that life is no longer so mysterious after all.