I’d rather have the answers. Sweetheart must feel like Captain Picard, when yet another Away Team tells him as little as possible about what they’ve found.
Picard: Jordi, what’s happening way down in Engineering that I can feel the floor lurching, here at the actual tippy top of the ship?
J: I think you’re going to want to come down here and see this for yourself.
P: Jordi, I swear if you don’t shove that catchphrase and explain why the p’tak my ship is exploding, I will fire you out of a torpedo tube.
Is he speaking in riddles? Or is he just stating a blunt truth and waiting for them to remember that the first thing Unity did when they got here was spawn a horrific limb monster and let it wander off into the underbrush?
Hmmm, good point, awgiedawgie. I just assumed Remy had brought all those extra parts, because he wasn’t sure what Unity was likely to want or need. However, he ought to have known Unity well enough that he could have predicted that she would find some way to use all the parts. Kind of like letting a kid eat an entire bag of candy all at one time.
OTOH, from Remy’s perspective, Unity is something like halfway between a miracle and a goddess, so it’s not really up to him to tell her what to do. He pretty much just gives her whatever she wants (or whatever he thinks she might like), and leaves it up to her what she wants to do with it. (I suppose, from that perspective, Remy is an enabler for Unity). It’s hard to imagine Remy trying to control or give direction to Unity, any more than he would to a loa. It’s just not really his thing. On the other, other hand, letting something happen doesn’t necessarily absolve one of responsibility for the consequences, and Remy did (presumably) choose his path in life.
Y’all can be singular, too, though(I know, but it’s a Southern thing, just trust me on this). Since he’s not saying “all y’all,” it’s left ambiguous, much like saying “you” can either refer to second-person singular or plural(and, as a Quaker friend has pointed out, “you” was originally plural-only, because “thee/thou” was singular).
I’ve always thought of Remy as a remote adjunct member of Skin Horse since “Come Swing from My Branches”. Kind of like Virginia was before she became their official coffeemaker.
Yes, good question. Remy just sort of appeared on the island unexpectedly, and there is no evidence anyone with Skin Horse contacted him. Certainly Sweetheart didn’t invite him, and Unity never said she did. Since Unity usually says whatever is on her mind with little to no filtering, it seems likely that if Unity had contacted Remy, she would have already mentioned it by now.
This is why initially I thought Remy might be dead, and his spirit had appeared there, for some reason. (Or something pretending to be him.). However, all evidence since appears to indicate this is actually a still-alive Remy, but we don’t really know why he decided to turn up there at that particular time. Did he “sense a disturbance in the Force”, so to speak? It is indeed a mystery.
He’s gonna tell them the answer.
He’s gonna tell them about what’s what.
He’s gonna tell them a big fat answer, people,
Aw, Papa Legba must know what’s what.
Yeah, down by the island.
Down by the shores of the southern Keys.
That’s where they’re helping,
Helping the mutant zombie retirees.
Well, so tell them ‘bout the slaughter,
Or, leave them all alone!
Frustrated puppy,
Mad about spirits run amok.
But she’s waitin’ and a thinkin’, oh,
And that’s its one more big crock.
Well, so tell us ‘bout the slaughter,
Or, leave them all alone!
—from “Dirty Water,” E. Cobb, performed by the Standells. (Frustrated puppy line from Sleepy John above.)
Why must anybody who has the answers speak in riddles?
Because when you finally solve the riddle, it gives you the illusion that you discovered the answer on your own.
At least that’s what they’d like you to think.
I’d rather have the answers. Sweetheart must feel like Captain Picard, when yet another Away Team tells him as little as possible about what they’ve found.
“Q, what is it you’re trying to tell me?”
“… You’ll find out.” 🙂
Picard: Jordi, what’s happening way down in Engineering that I can feel the floor lurching, here at the actual tippy top of the ship?
J: I think you’re going to want to come down here and see this for yourself.
P: Jordi, I swear if you don’t shove that catchphrase and explain why the p’tak my ship is exploding, I will fire you out of a torpedo tube.
It’s rather like Socrates never answering a question but asking a question instead.
Teacher: Life is like a bowl of cherries.
Student: Why is life like a bowl of cherries?
Teacher: Listen, did you come here to be enlightened, or just to argue with me?
It’s a god thing. No, seriously, *every* religion out there is like this.
Nah, wizards do it too.
Is he speaking in riddles? Or is he just stating a blunt truth and waiting for them to remember that the first thing Unity did when they got here was spawn a horrific limb monster and let it wander off into the underbrush?
Good question.
Gandalf claimed that he spoke to the wisest person around, and almost always that was Gandalf.
As for the Abomination…well, she might be involved in some way, but the “I’m coming for you” dreams started well before her creation.
Ah, but remember, the answer Papa Legba gives to Sweetheart’s first two questions is “Ask two questions, get two answers.”
So the implication is that the answer to (paraphrased) “What is the threat?” is different than the answer to “What’s attacking the undead?”
Part of it is when you just give the answers, people tend to argue about it. Letting them figure it on their own gives you chance to back away.
Because one of its legs are both the same
Well, that puts a little dent in the theory that the Abomination is responsible, since it was Remy who brought way too many body parts for Unity.
He did indeed provide the raw material, but it was Unity who assembled the creature and animated it with her goo.
I didn’t say it rules out the theory entirely.
Hmmm, good point, awgiedawgie. I just assumed Remy had brought all those extra parts, because he wasn’t sure what Unity was likely to want or need. However, he ought to have known Unity well enough that he could have predicted that she would find some way to use all the parts. Kind of like letting a kid eat an entire bag of candy all at one time.
OTOH, from Remy’s perspective, Unity is something like halfway between a miracle and a goddess, so it’s not really up to him to tell her what to do. He pretty much just gives her whatever she wants (or whatever he thinks she might like), and leaves it up to her what she wants to do with it. (I suppose, from that perspective, Remy is an enabler for Unity). It’s hard to imagine Remy trying to control or give direction to Unity, any more than he would to a loa. It’s just not really his thing. On the other, other hand, letting something happen doesn’t necessarily absolve one of responsibility for the consequences, and Remy did (presumably) choose his path in life.
*Papa Legba* said “y’all are”. He could be including Remy in that “Y’all”
Y’all can be singular, too, though(I know, but it’s a Southern thing, just trust me on this). Since he’s not saying “all y’all,” it’s left ambiguous, much like saying “you” can either refer to second-person singular or plural(and, as a Quaker friend has pointed out, “you” was originally plural-only, because “thee/thou” was singular).
Ah, but who brought in Remy?
I’ve always thought of Remy as a remote adjunct member of Skin Horse since “Come Swing from My Branches”. Kind of like Virginia was before she became their official coffeemaker.
Yes, good question. Remy just sort of appeared on the island unexpectedly, and there is no evidence anyone with Skin Horse contacted him. Certainly Sweetheart didn’t invite him, and Unity never said she did. Since Unity usually says whatever is on her mind with little to no filtering, it seems likely that if Unity had contacted Remy, she would have already mentioned it by now.
This is why initially I thought Remy might be dead, and his spirit had appeared there, for some reason. (Or something pretending to be him.). However, all evidence since appears to indicate this is actually a still-alive Remy, but we don’t really know why he decided to turn up there at that particular time. Did he “sense a disturbance in the Force”, so to speak? It is indeed a mystery.
Frustrated puppies are cute! Unity’s gonna post this as a YouTube video on all the doggy Facebook groups!
He’s gonna tell them the answer.
He’s gonna tell them about what’s what.
He’s gonna tell them a big fat answer, people,
Aw, Papa Legba must know what’s what.
Yeah, down by the island.
Down by the shores of the southern Keys.
That’s where they’re helping,
Helping the mutant zombie retirees.
Well, so tell them ‘bout the slaughter,
Or, leave them all alone!
Frustrated puppy,
Mad about spirits run amok.
But she’s waitin’ and a thinkin’, oh,
And that’s its one more big crock.
Well, so tell us ‘bout the slaughter,
Or, leave them all alone!
—from “Dirty Water,” E. Cobb, performed by the Standells. (Frustrated puppy line from Sleepy John above.)