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Created on 2002-01-23 01:23:24 (#447490), last updated 2004-04-26
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Basic Info| Name: | Black Mage no. 288 |
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| Location: | Olympus Mons, Ares |
BioWhich medieval physician was it who, standing before a dissected human corpse, had asked, Where is the soul? He felt that close to despair.
"But what did it all mean? What was Earth trying to tell me?"
"It means nothing," the human overseer said. Three spheres changed color, but he waved them to silence. "Most of Earth's encounters do not. This is not an uncommon experience. You think it's special because it's happened to you, but we see this sort of thing every day. Earth likes to distract us with meaningless theater." The bureaucrat was appalled. My God, he thought, we are ruled by men whose machines are cleverer than they are.
"If you will allow me to speak," one construct said. "The freedom to be human is bought only through constant vigilance."
Michael Swanwick -- Stations of the Tide
"But what did it all mean? What was Earth trying to tell me?"
"It means nothing," the human overseer said. Three spheres changed color, but he waved them to silence. "Most of Earth's encounters do not. This is not an uncommon experience. You think it's special because it's happened to you, but we see this sort of thing every day. Earth likes to distract us with meaningless theater." The bureaucrat was appalled. My God, he thought, we are ruled by men whose machines are cleverer than they are.
"If you will allow me to speak," one construct said. "The freedom to be human is bought only through constant vigilance."
Michael Swanwick -- Stations of the Tide
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