Either GODOT has a very convoluted plan that includes blowing the whistle on his texting capabilities, or there are limits on his texting capabilities; otherwise the menu would still be a manifesto.
Perhaps GODOT’s wireless plan doesn’t have unlimited texting?
(TUNE: “The Impossible Dream”, from “Man Of La Mancha”, Joe Darion & Mitch Leigh)
To see … what’s not possibly seen!
To read … what’s not possibly there!
Behold! Manifesto has vanished!
It’s gone, vanished into thin air!
You’ll find … you must open your mind!
Don’t judge … so impetuously!
You know … that you shouldn’t be using
That word … that begins with a “P”!
This is our creed!
That anything goes!
We’re now realizing
This skill of GODOT’s!
Words that didn’t belong,
They weren’t there all along!
What we’re reading ain’t right, and what’s written is rotten and wrong!
And we know
If we don’t stop GODOT
Changing words that we’ve viewed,
We’ll assume
That we’re facing our doom,
And we’re royally screwed!
And we know, what’s been done in the past
Can’t prevent what the future will see!
Just stop, if you catch yourself saying,
“Oh, gee! That can’t possibly be!”
What’s so hidebound about the 11th century? The average European of the time would believe a dozen impossible things before breakfast, as long as they were attributed to divine/saintly/marianite intervention.
Exactly. The possibility that something might be knowable to mere man alone rarely crossed their minds. They weren’t big on trying to understand things.
You do realize that Walske is a mad scientist, and not a historian, right? Either that, or he’s been studying alternate dimension theory and forgot which one is his own timeline.
Seriously, I assumed the reference was to indicate being a thousand years behind the times, as opposed to the more common “last century” references used by the non-mad.
Besides, the 11th century really was a rather practical period, other than the occasional king wanting to ignore the laws of physics. Just because people don’t know how the universe works doesn’t make them stupid. Their evidence for trolls was just as convincing to them as our evidence for quarks and dark matter is to us. If you think that we’re so much better informed, tell that to the people who produce all those “finding Bigfoot” shows on educational channels…
Actually, they were very big on understanding things. It’s been called the Age of Reason for a *reason*. If they aren’t things you happen to be very interested in, that’s hardly their fault.
Europeans of the 11th century believed that the proportions of the orbits of celestial bodies corresponded to musical intervals, making the entire universe a divine choir and adapting Plato’s notion of “sacred geometry” to astronomy. That makes their worldview officially both cooler and nerdier than yours, sir. Impossible, you say, for something to be simultaneously cooler and nerdier? Perhaps! We’ll chalk it up to divine intervention, because THAT’S JUST HOW THEY ROLLED, BABY.
I think GODOT is still messing with them. I can see Violet, imprisoned, sending a defiant manifesto to the engineers. But why would she send a Chinese takeout menu?
I would guess that the menu was just lying on one of the engineers’ desks when GODOT made it look like a manifesto from Violet. She may not even have been revived yet.
Please let the zombie apocalypse take Walske.
Nooo! I like Walske!
Either GODOT has a very convoluted plan that includes blowing the whistle on his texting capabilities, or there are limits on his texting capabilities; otherwise the menu would still be a manifesto.
Perhaps GODOT’s wireless plan doesn’t have unlimited texting?
Maybe GODOT has limited concentration, or just isn’t aware that someone is reading something if not paying attention.
I think he’s letting her see the true text because it’s already too late: “I did it thirty-five minutes ago” and all that.
(TUNE: “The Impossible Dream”, from “Man Of La Mancha”, Joe Darion & Mitch Leigh)
To see … what’s not possibly seen!
To read … what’s not possibly there!
Behold! Manifesto has vanished!
It’s gone, vanished into thin air!
You’ll find … you must open your mind!
Don’t judge … so impetuously!
You know … that you shouldn’t be using
That word … that begins with a “P”!
This is our creed!
That anything goes!
We’re now realizing
This skill of GODOT’s!
Words that didn’t belong,
They weren’t there all along!
What we’re reading ain’t right, and what’s written is rotten and wrong!
And we know
If we don’t stop GODOT
Changing words that we’ve viewed,
We’ll assume
That we’re facing our doom,
And we’re royally screwed!
And we know, what’s been done in the past
Can’t prevent what the future will see!
Just stop, if you catch yourself saying,
“Oh, gee! That can’t possibly be!”
Or maybe, GODOT is making the manifesto look like a menu.
What’s so hidebound about the 11th century? The average European of the time would believe a dozen impossible things before breakfast, as long as they were attributed to divine/saintly/marianite intervention.
Exactly. The possibility that something might be knowable to mere man alone rarely crossed their minds. They weren’t big on trying to understand things.
You do realize that Walske is a mad scientist, and not a historian, right? Either that, or he’s been studying alternate dimension theory and forgot which one is his own timeline.
Seriously, I assumed the reference was to indicate being a thousand years behind the times, as opposed to the more common “last century” references used by the non-mad.
Besides, the 11th century really was a rather practical period, other than the occasional king wanting to ignore the laws of physics. Just because people don’t know how the universe works doesn’t make them stupid. Their evidence for trolls was just as convincing to them as our evidence for quarks and dark matter is to us. If you think that we’re so much better informed, tell that to the people who produce all those “finding Bigfoot” shows on educational channels…
Actually, they were very big on understanding things. It’s been called the Age of Reason for a *reason*. If they aren’t things you happen to be very interested in, that’s hardly their fault.
Pretty sure the Age of Reason was about 600 years later. 11th century is before the Renaissance, let along the Enlightenment.
Europeans of the 11th century believed that the proportions of the orbits of celestial bodies corresponded to musical intervals, making the entire universe a divine choir and adapting Plato’s notion of “sacred geometry” to astronomy. That makes their worldview officially both cooler and nerdier than yours, sir. Impossible, you say, for something to be simultaneously cooler and nerdier? Perhaps! We’ll chalk it up to divine intervention, because THAT’S JUST HOW THEY ROLLED, BABY.
Music has been both cooler and nerdier since Pythagoras. Check out Mark Applebaum’s TED talk.
http://www.ted.com/talks/mark_applebaum_the_mad_scientist_of_music.html
I am so snurching this as ammunition for this Controversy! subforum I frequent…
mnem
I will quote the truth wherever I find it, thank you.
I think GODOT is still messing with them. I can see Violet, imprisoned, sending a defiant manifesto to the engineers. But why would she send a Chinese takeout menu?
I would guess that the menu was just lying on one of the engineers’ desks when GODOT made it look like a manifesto from Violet. She may not even have been revived yet.
When confronting a mystery, eliminate all the possiblities. Whatever is left over, however improbable, will be found by Sweetheart in Tip’s bed.