Dr Talos

The Urth list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 07 Sep 2006
https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/4715

b sharp07 Sep 2006, 10:45
Dan'l writes about Talos:
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He has surpassed his maker in some significant ways; this might itself be something of a "theme" in tBotNS, given the history of the Hiero-foos. But when he deliberately evokes >Frankenstein, I'm forcefully reminded of the most chilling line in Shelley's book: "You are my >creator, but I am your master. Obey!"
Ah, so you are thinking the Baldanders-Talos relationship mirrors the humanity-Hierogrammate relationship? That's a pretty insightful thought and I don't think I've ever seen it hinted at before. um...Hiero-fools? -bsharp
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes08 Sep 2006, 01:40

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On 9/7/06, b sharp <bsharporflat at hotmail.com> wrote: Ah, so you are thinking the Baldanders-Talos relationship mirrors the humanity-Hierogrammate relationship?
Actually, no, I hadn't thought of it that way; just the idea of a made thing becoming in some way greater than its maker ... the desire to do which is, itself, pretty much the ur-sin. But Talos and the HieroXs don't seek to surpass their makers; it just happens.
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um...Hiero-fools?
No, Hiero-Foos, where "foo" is a sort of generic variable name from (my generation of) computer science students. If you need two, the second one is either "bar" or "baz," depending on whether you went to Berkeley or Stanford 8*)
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Jeff Wilson08 Sep 2006, 02:51

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b sharp wrote: Dan'l writes about Talos:
He has surpassed his maker in some significant ways; this might itself be something of a "theme" in tBotNS, given the history of the Hiero-foos. But when he deliberately evokes >Frankenstein, I'm forcefully reminded of the most chilling line in Shelley's book: "You are my >creator, but I am your master. Obey!"
Ah, so you are thinking the Baldanders-Talos relationship mirrors the humanity-Hierogrammate relationship? That's a pretty insightful thought and I don't think I've ever seen it hinted at before. um...Hiero-fools?
I believe Dan'l is employing a metasyntactic variable here, rather than making a typo. The "higher" beings are much too manipulative to be considered holy fools.

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