Faterh Inire Theory cont.

David Stockhoff · 15 Dec 2010, 12:14 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 07:14:08 -0500
Subject: (urth) Faterh Inire Theory cont.
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But Jonas isn't a suit, is he? He's Frank Stockton's Tin Man.

On 12/14/2010 11:50 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
> On 12/14/2010 8:41 AM, David Stockhoff wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 12/14/2010 8:08 AM, Lee Berman wrote:
>>> Gr. don't have my books with me, but IIRC, the man from whom Jonas got
>>> replacement parts was from Urth, a
>>> ground casualty of the crash, not a shipmate. Have to check later.
>
>> Yes, it was. it may have been a country villlager, for all we know.
>> Recall that Severian thought Jonas a peasant because of his folksy
>> speech, but that was actually sailor's speech. If his ship did crash
>> near the House, his meat memories could be those of a servant of the
>> House---perhaps one who knew of the mirrors. I don't see why Metal Jonas
>> could not access Meat Jonas's memories.
>
> Sidero could not access Sev's memories despite his adverse pccupation 
> when it would have been very useful to do so, so there's no precedent 
> for the suit-robots to have mind-reading or memory-probing capacity. 
> They do seem to have certain neural or electrical induction abilities 
> to allow "silent" communication with the occupant.
>
> Robo-Jonas' fragmentary memories may be due to 1) lingering crash 
> damage and 2) exceeding his original mission capabilities - no one 
> expected a ship's bot to need the capacity to accumulate very large 
> amounts of geographical information without access to upgrades or at 
> least proper maintenance.
>
>


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