The success of the explicative scope of the ideal Fermi gas model relies on Landau's Fermi liquid theory where fermions interacting repulsively through a short range forces can be described in some degree as an IFG.
This is an amazing book, it breathes a reality into a most unlikely subject; Hel is both repelled by her own physical being and relishes nastiness with sheer brutality and cruelty: with this terrific writing she becomes both repulsively appalling and totally irresistible.
Like Dave, all of Atkins's avatars, slumping with their ever-so-slightly glitched physical correspondences through their just-about-persuasive worlds, undeniably stand on the cusp of the repulsively uncanny.
"I was named before I was even interviewed and for me that was like being hung out like 'live bait"' Sir Cliff Richard after being told he would not face charges over allegations that he sexually abused boys "I hate a plant because it is repulsively ugly, and that's the begonia.
I would suggest that the horror of gauna functions in a similar way, and it is here precisely a horror activated, as it were, by abjection itself, by flesh-without-reason, denuded of qualities, flesh that insists, repulsively, on nothing but absorption and reproduction.