I’m guessing variant madness of the Knurd variety, just like there’s also a varient strain of good mad scientists.
Then again, since according to Helen Narbon (and it IS her area of research) Walton’s Disorder is at least in part the ability to perceive the true irrational nature of the universe and act accordingly. If that’s true, then the difference between being Knurd and being Mad is shaky at best, you’re just coming at it from the other direction.
Actually, this makes me suspect that in this world enlightenment and meditation have very real effects…and that part of success is realizing that the universe refuses to take itself seriously.
She’s one of the few that not only stands on the line between madness and sanity… but built a house on it and laughed at all the people trying to stay on the line without falling.
Speaking of Knurd, Sir Pratchett himself once mentioned (in Thief Of Time) that sometimes extreme sanity is just another form of madness. Dr. Lee is not the raving, let’s-conquer-the-world-with-cyborg-locusts, kind of madgirl, but she can’t do the kind of tech she does and be perfectly sane.
Tip doesn’t have a low opinion of her, he has a perfectly reasonable one based on her past exploits. Which isn’t saying much for either of them.
OK, I’m sure at some point the signification of “AG-I” has been addressed in the comic. (I mean, I’m pretty sure it refers to the Institute, but I can’t put my finger on what the letters signify.)
But what I’m really curious about right now, on a day when “AG-I” is mentioned in the comic and it’s also raining where I am, is this: Is it just coincidence that AgI is the chemical formula for silver iodide, the stuff they seed clouds with? Or will the AgI/AG-I connection become important in the comic at some point?
It has nothing to do with the Institute. It’s the superhero group Nick started working for after Skin Horse shut down: http://skin-horse.com/comic/wont-be/
Not sure it has been mentioned what AG-I stands for, though.
Hmm. Now that you mention it, yes, Tip seems to have accidentally stuck his right hand on the end of his left arm when he got up this morning. Cyborg? Or sleepy artist? You decide!
His “gesture” appears to be that of pushing his glasses back up his nose — I know, because I do the very same thing dozens of times a day. And yes, it does indeed appear to be the wrong hand for that arm.
Maybe the one time he invited Unity to “get physical” he didn’t get put back together quite right.
I don’t remember Nick leaving.
He flew Sweetheart back, and mentioned he would have to explain his absence to AG-I. We must assume he flew off after dropping Sweetheart.
Dr. Lee is a sane scientist, right? Are we certain she’s not just “pre-mad” like Dave was?
No… we can see her eyes. She’s either mad or not pre-mad… I’m guessing “mad, but repressed about it”.
I’m guessing variant madness of the Knurd variety, just like there’s also a varient strain of good mad scientists.
Then again, since according to Helen Narbon (and it IS her area of research) Walton’s Disorder is at least in part the ability to perceive the true irrational nature of the universe and act accordingly. If that’s true, then the difference between being Knurd and being Mad is shaky at best, you’re just coming at it from the other direction.
Actually, this makes me suspect that in this world enlightenment and meditation have very real effects…and that part of success is realizing that the universe refuses to take itself seriously.
She’s one of the few that not only stands on the line between madness and sanity… but built a house on it and laughed at all the people trying to stay on the line without falling.
For that, Virginia is a roll model for me 🙂
Speaking of Knurd, Sir Pratchett himself once mentioned (in Thief Of Time) that sometimes extreme sanity is just another form of madness. Dr. Lee is not the raving, let’s-conquer-the-world-with-cyborg-locusts, kind of madgirl, but she can’t do the kind of tech she does and be perfectly sane.
Tip doesn’t have a low opinion of her, he has a perfectly reasonable one based on her past exploits. Which isn’t saying much for either of them.
I hate to imagine what she did to the cops chasing her. If it involved Hitty, perhaps it was mercifully swift…
I’m sure she made them very nice pancakes.
I approve of the word choice.
Maybe she wielded sexuality as a weapon again…
I think the vehicle just left them in the dust, going at many times the speed limit.
So Nick *didn’t* go back to his old job with Skin Horse, huh?
“Furniture”?
I really want the dress Tip’s wearing. (Though I think I probably have the choker to go with it, left over from the 90s…)
OK, I’m sure at some point the signification of “AG-I” has been addressed in the comic. (I mean, I’m pretty sure it refers to the Institute, but I can’t put my finger on what the letters signify.)
But what I’m really curious about right now, on a day when “AG-I” is mentioned in the comic and it’s also raining where I am, is this: Is it just coincidence that AgI is the chemical formula for silver iodide, the stuff they seed clouds with? Or will the AgI/AG-I connection become important in the comic at some point?
It has nothing to do with the Institute. It’s the superhero group Nick started working for after Skin Horse shut down: http://skin-horse.com/comic/wont-be/
Not sure it has been mentioned what AG-I stands for, though.
Oh, right. Thanks!
You know, i was wondering where nick was
and is it just me, or does that hand look weird?
Hmm. Now that you mention it, yes, Tip seems to have accidentally stuck his right hand on the end of his left arm when he got up this morning. Cyborg? Or sleepy artist? You decide!
I’d prefer to think he hurt his hand and therefore needs to gesture with his pinky and his ring finger
His “gesture” appears to be that of pushing his glasses back up his nose — I know, because I do the very same thing dozens of times a day. And yes, it does indeed appear to be the wrong hand for that arm.
Maybe the one time he invited Unity to “get physical” he didn’t get put back together quite right.