Como se a ficção de fato desviasse os rios

The naturalist Fritz Muller published the article “Der Minhocao”, in 1877, in the German magazine Zoologische Garten, collecting testimonies about the inusual annelid that would have been seen in the states of Santa Catarina, Parana and Sao Paulo. Object this reading, the 19th century scientific report is read from the theory of displacement of the ideas of Philosophy of As If (Philosophie des Als Ob, 1911), by Hans Vaihinger, with elements of Wolfgang Iser (fictional, imaginary) and Vilem Flusser (philosophical fable Vampyrotheutis Infernalis). In this reading, descriptions of alternating zoology by Guimaraes Rosa and Wilson Bueno, a poem by Fritz Muller and a fragment of Galaxias, by Haroldo de Campos, are counterpoints that explore the limits between fiction and fact, and between fiction, hypothesis and scientific dogma.