Monitors

Joel Priddy · 15 Jul 1997, 16:24 · from whorl-v0007.mbox · original

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From: Joel Priddy <jpriddy at saturn.vcu.edu>
Subject: (whorl) Monitors
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 97 12:24:38 EDT
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[Posted from WHORL, the mailing list for Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun]


Kevin McGuire say:
>>This implies a lot more initiative and synthesis than I had
given the monitors credit for.  So, does Silk and the rest
continually underestimate the monitor's powers (a not
unreasonable thought) or is the monitor in the lander a bit
sharper/more independent?  Or was there a Monitor Directive #305
- "If an inhumi says left, go right,"?<<

Also, did the Monitor reverse the decision out of concern for the
Cargo, or out of it's own sense of self-preservation?

cephalothorax

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