I am really trying to like Scout and Eric, but I just can’t. Scout really bothers me and I find her incredibly annoying. Which is weird, because I really like Clio, and they are supposed to be almost the same person… Also, I have been thinking about it, and maybe there is really no “conceptual” connection between Clio and Scout; maybe Hall is just making a statement about the fact that in times of loss and grievance, people cling to remnants of the person they lost in new people they meet. People are so attached to the person they lost, that they will see whatever they want to see (which is the person they lost) in the next person they meet.
Too cynical?
But, this could also relate to the idea of the Rorschach Tests, and the human tendency to see what they want to see out of ambiguous situations.
Also, badass flip book with the shark, thanks Steven Hall.
Yeah I really liked the flip book type thing. Also, you can definitely tell that something bad is going to happen even though Trey Fidorous keeps insisting its going to be easy.
So is Eric becoming like the first Eric Sanderson again? Is that what he means by the flip side of the coin? Cause back when he put on those other clothes and did that geeky wave to Scout, Fidorous said “You look much more like yourself” and he seemed more like the Eric from the Lightbulb Fragment. But I don’t understand how being on a conceptual boat would make him get his original personality back..
Oh and that island is obviously Naxos. Obvi.
Are their actual bodies just sitting in their fake boat while their concepts are sailing the conceptual sea in a conceptual boat, kinda like in the matrix but goofier?
What is a shark hunting boat? I have heard of whaling and fishing but not shark hunting. Are sharks delicious?
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I am really trying to like Scout and Eric, but I just can’t. Scout really bothers me and I find her incredibly annoying. Which is weird, because I really like Clio, and they are supposed to be almost the same person… Also, I have been thinking about it, and maybe there is really no “conceptual” connection between Clio and Scout; maybe Hall is just making a statement about the fact that in times of loss and grievance, people cling to remnants of the person they lost in new people they meet. People are so attached to the person they lost, that they will see whatever they want to see (which is the person they lost) in the next person they meet.
Too cynical?
But, this could also relate to the idea of the Rorschach Tests, and the human tendency to see what they want to see out of ambiguous situations.
Also, badass flip book with the shark, thanks Steven Hall.
Yeah I really liked the flip book type thing. Also, you can definitely tell that something bad is going to happen even though Trey Fidorous keeps insisting its going to be easy.
So is Eric becoming like the first Eric Sanderson again? Is that what he means by the flip side of the coin? Cause back when he put on those other clothes and did that geeky wave to Scout, Fidorous said “You look much more like yourself” and he seemed more like the Eric from the Lightbulb Fragment. But I don’t understand how being on a conceptual boat would make him get his original personality back..
Oh and that island is obviously Naxos. Obvi.
Are their actual bodies just sitting in their fake boat while their concepts are sailing the conceptual sea in a conceptual boat, kinda like in the matrix but goofier?
What is a shark hunting boat? I have heard of whaling and fishing but not shark hunting. Are sharks delicious?