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Heads Topics for Discussion

1. Why is Mickey unhappy with what he did to Fiona Task-Felder?

2. Why is political control by a religion seen as dangerous?

3. Why do the characters in Heads take so long to realize why the Logologists might object to the study of the memories within frozen heads?

4. Why would the existence of Thierry's head worry the leaders of Logology?

Why not welcome the return of their religion's founder?

5. "I turned my gaze to the president's dais, to Fiona Task-Felder, feeling for the first time a flash of real hatred. I date my present self to that moment," says Mickey. What does he mean by this? How does this moment affect his subsequent actions?

6. Heads is partly a story of Mickey's coming of age, yet he does not seem to welcome the new wisdom...
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