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Please read through chapter 20 in The Raw Shark Texts and post accordingly. If you didn’t e-mail me your letter to your first self, please do!
Please read through chapter 20 in The Raw Shark Texts and post accordingly. If you didn’t e-mail me your letter to your first self, please do!
For such a disturbing and fantastic story, I completely buy into the whole Mycroft Ward story. I mean, we’ve seen the power of concepts in this world, so why shouldn’t a person be able to project a concept of their personality onto another person?
But one person controlling multiple bodies? that’s screwed up. I like the idea of the machine controlling all of this, because the mass of bodies controlled by the one consciousness indeed becomes a machine. It’s like a community of termites; one brain but no free thinkers. The machine is only concerned with self-preservation, and in the process it has lost sight of the importance of the individual, of what is human. That’s kind of scary. I’d like to see the Ludovician tear him to shreds (but would that kill everyone he controls? or just free them?)
i really like the story of mycroft ward, but i’m a little confused. did he hypnotize quinn or something like that to transfer his personality? i know that he never made that knowledge known to the public but maybe i just didn’t read close enough. and how does taking an online test make you a copy of ward?
the bond between eric and scout has really blossomed now. i like how they can relate to each other because they both have been separated from the rest of the world. do you think something romantic will blossom between the two or is scout too professional and emotionally unstable for that?
good golly. this story is crazy. ward reminds me of that evil computer in I ROBOT (the movie). i don’t understand how studying the ludovician will allow ward to transfer himself into more people. is mr nobody ward or something ward created? if a person transfers their personality into a different person, are they still the same person?
Has anyone seen 9?! (the Tim Burton one). Ward is just like the evil robot that can make all the other robots. It’s uncanny.
Kewlllll, I like that Mycroft Ward thing. Every time I read that name I think Microsoft Word, so maybe this is yet another allusion? Anyways, I think its a cool idea that you could transfer your personality onto someone, and it definitely makes sense within this book I think.
I also think that Eric and Scout are definitely gonna have some like romantic relationship. And since these chapters talked about being able to transfer personalities onto other people, I think that might have something to do with Scout’s similarity to Clio. I would say Clio transferred her personality to Scout but I don’t think thats it. Also, their whole relationship is making Eric seem like less of a crazy person cause he now has someone to talk to who seems relatively sane and who is also cut off from the world.
I’ve seen 8 1/2 (the Fellini one; 9 is based on it). And that’s strange that unpasteurized said that reference to Microsoft Word, because I felt the same immediate reaction to Mycroft Ward — seemed like something to do with technology.
We assume that Eric lost his memory by the Ludovician, by accident, since he woke randomly on his floor. But, Scout doesn’t have a memory of her past because she chose to detach herself from her life. How is Scout able to go on living without thinking of her past, whereas Eric must learn about his past and use it to shape who his future? I find it interesting that Scout and Eric both are detached from their pasts, but for different reasons. You can really see their two different personalities in the way that they cope with memories.
What if Scout transferred her personality to Clio instead of the other way around?
Mycroft Ward is a hivemind, like the Buggers from Enders Game. If by some means he gains the ability to have all the individual bodies synchronize continuously then he will literally be able to control all the bodies as nothing but drones, The only problem is that he put that stupid self preservation thing in.
-”It believes that by observation, it can find the solution to its own evolutionary dead end.”