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2012-10-30

by shaenon on October 30, 2012 at 12:00 am
Chapter: Railway Children
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  1. Towering Barbarian
    October 30, 2012, 1:26 am | # | Reply

    Told by whom? o_O

    Lovelace? Violet Bee? Or perhaps somebody a bit more sinister? @_@

    • Daibhid C
      October 30, 2012, 3:44 am | # | Reply

      He could be referring to Ginny on October 6th. She didn’t use those exact words, but she was pretty dismissive of the idea.

  2. codebracker
    October 30, 2012, 2:14 am | # | Reply

    This is making me even more suspicious of that word.
    I bet it’s an acronim for something.

    • jdreyfuss
      October 30, 2012, 9:33 am | # | Reply

      I think you might be onto something. Hasn’t GODOT been grammatically consistent throughout the storyline? “DESTROY” doesn’t agree syntactically with either Unity’s question or the sentence it’s in.

      • Andy4Hire
        October 30, 2012, 4:24 pm | # | Reply

        Actually “DESTROY” works just fine in that sentence, if you imagine quotation marks around the word “DESTROY,” thus: I’m told “DESTROY” is played out.

        Unity asks what GODOT really wants, and GODOT is torn. “I really want to destroy,” it thinks, “but they say that’s what entities like me usually want. Do I go for it anyway, or seek something more original?” And with six words, GODOT inscribes in Unity’s perception (and ours) an acknowledgement of both sides of its internal debate.

        That GODOT hasn’t been using much punctuation, apart from the occasional apostrophe, may or may not be significant, but perhaps that’s fodder for a different discussion.

        • jdreyfuss
          October 31, 2012, 6:44 am | # | Reply

          “DESTROY” still doesn’t agree syntactically with the question. In that case it would be “TO DESTROY.”

  3. Eddurd
    October 30, 2012, 3:18 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “I’ll Take Manhattan”, Rodgers & Hart)

    I like destruction!
    The introduction of C4
    Is something I adore …
    Please, more!

    To make me love you,
    A smidgen of plutonium
    Would have folks running from
    A burning, glowing slum!
    Give me some!

    If you are pining
    ‘Cause I am shining much too bright,
    A stick of dynamite
    I’ll light!

    If you’d like me to destroy
    Each St. Charlie girl and boy …
    Then pure destruction I will employ with joy!

  4. Rex Vivat
    October 30, 2012, 4:52 am | # | Reply

    The understatement of the year.

  5. Andy4Hire
    October 30, 2012, 8:44 am | # | Reply

    I know an actual connection is implausible, given GODOT’s skill with words, but the emphasis on “DESTROY” in the fourth panel takes my brain right back to the Killotrons in “Cowardly Lion.” (Heh. “Happily, we are purged of our old destructive impulses and now live only to destroy.”)

  6. Ryushikaze
    October 30, 2012, 1:55 pm | # | Reply

    Godot wants everyone in the dark. He doesn’t want anyone to know what his purpose is. His game is DESTROY.
    Do Everything Simply to Really Obfuscate You.

    • Shadowmehr
      October 30, 2012, 3:19 pm | # | Reply

      That, my friend, is screwy enough to just be absolutely right.

  7. Johnwwells
    October 30, 2012, 2:23 pm | # | Reply

    I have to say, whatever Godot’s secret drives are, it has a great sense of word layout and typography. Note the subtle but neat slanting of the words “too much light,” like a flashlight beam.

  8. Bill
    October 30, 2012, 3:05 pm | # | Reply

    And another filk that immediately cane to mind …

    (Song – Lost in your Eyes by Debbie Gibson)

    I like lost, in the dark
    And I feel my power rise
    And spread like the gods
    Is it fear that you are in?
    I get weak in a chance
    Isn’t this what’s called happenstance?
    And that’s when I know
    Cause when you read
    You can’t let go

  9. Chris
    October 30, 2012, 6:18 pm | # | Reply

    Even when she’s smart, Unity is still Unity.

  10. --jt--
    October 30, 2012, 9:40 pm | # | Reply

    I think it is interesting we are getting Unity ‘s side of this conversation from her “blond” side.

  11. mnementh
    October 30, 2012, 9:55 pm | # | Reply

    “In order to understand harmony we must first investigate discord.”

    But I don’t want to be lost in the pure white light of stupidity…

    mnem
    I am Diogenes. [IMG]http://i1183.photobucket.com/albums/x462/mnemennth/Smiley_Tiny_Diogenes.gif[/IMG]

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