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[UPDATE] Quirky Acuity - Thursday January 12th 2006
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 		[UPDATE] Quirky Acuity - Thursday January 12th 2006
Granier diaries, installment five
Category: me
Time: 03:44 AM

Slightly shorter than normal today - he seems to have left some space
at the bottom of the second page. Don't worry, we've checked it out
and there's no hidden writing! It looks like he just left a gap, and
started afresh on the next page. I can sort of see why:

7 April 1736
Today, the final preparations for the experiment have been made. After
much converse with EM, we have selected two men in their middle years,
unmarried and without living parents. This brings us but little
comfort. Edwina said: "all men touch one another's lives", and she
speaks truly. To make such a choice! It brings to mind the worst
excesses which one hears occur in Machiantes. My lord appears not one
whit disturbed, however, and dined heartily this evening while Edwina
and I ate but little.

"Come come," he said, "they do but go on ahead of their fellows, who
will follow them soon enough, if you have figured your sums sharply,
Mistress Mountling."

She nodded gravely at this. We have talked upon the matter a good deal
these past few days. If some must be sacrificed that others may live
free, is that so hard to bear? And if we should spare these few, only
for them to perish at the hands of our enemies, would we be thanked?
It is better that they do not know, that the children continue to play
innocent in the streets. We who bear the knowledge shall do so as our
burden.

8 April 1736
Experiment conducted today. An awful spectacle. I have no energy to
write more this night.

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 		Looks like we'll have to wait until tomorrow to find out what happened. Very exciting (except for the two men in their middle years of course).

It sounds as though all will be sacrificed in the end though.
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 		"sacrificed" or " slaughtered"?
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 		weapons testing on live subjects... How very un-PC...
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 		Sacrificed.

Slaughtered would imply that there is little moral judgement-you're just killing people for the sake of killing them-where as there is if you're sacrifcing people there's the implication there it's being doing for a purpose.
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 		Hi

My first post for ages but " Don't worry, we've checked it out
and there's no hidden writing!" seems a bit certain. Do we just take this as fact?
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European Chris wrote:
Sacrificed.

Slaughtered would imply that there is little moral judgement-you're just killing people for the sake of killing them-where as there is if you're sacrifcing people there's the implication there it's being doing for a purpose.


To me it sounds as if they're "sacrificing" the experimental dudes for the good of whatever this mysterious project is, then planning on slaughtering a few others.

Why do I think this?

Quote:
"they do but go on ahead of their fellows, who
will follow them soon enough, if you have figured your sums sharply,
Mistress Mountling."


There's a nice little comment about giving people 'freedom' later on, but who's the "good" and the "bad" in this?

Or, are we completely on the wrong end of the stick, and we're actually seeing the trials of a device that's able to transport people from their world to ours? Or from ours to theirs...
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 		No this is obviously some sort of destructive device which they are testing on their 'clansmen' - they have to test the device before using it on their enemies. The argument being the good of the many outweighs the good of the few (mr spock) meaning they sacrifice a couple of locals to get the machine working then use the 'machine' to win the war and save more local lives... (In much the same way the British govt/army tested chemical weapons on british troops during WW1/WW2)
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 		[caution: spec!]

Unless it's not a destructive device, simply a risky one...it makes me think that they're perhaps going to send them somewhere (with "the rest following", if you don't assume that's a reference to the after-life).

Maybe here?
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 		MikeyJ has a point. We know that someone somewhere managed to transport the Cube to Earth. (On the other hand, when did the people of Perplex City become aware of Earth?) It may be that these were just the trials. However, the tone of the diary entries makes me think that the test subjects are not going to be entering into this willingly and would not be likely to survive.
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 		I like MikeyJ's idea, but...

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We know that someone somewhere managed to transport the Cube to Earth.


...do we? Embarassed

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Mikeyj wrote:
[caution: spec!]

Unless it's not a destructive device, simply a risky one...it makes me think that they're perhaps going to send them somewhere (with "the rest following", if you don't assume that's a reference to the after-life).

Maybe here?


Well we know there's a war quite soon so I can only imagine it's some sort of weapon.

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The argument being the good of the many outweighs the good of the few (mr spock) meaning they sacrifice a couple of locals to get the machine working then use the 'machine' to win the war and save more local lives... (In much the same way the British govt/army tested chemical weapons on british troops during WW1/WW2)


Completely agree. But lets not be too Shami Chakrabati about it all.
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 		Where is the cube at this time.. this is before its found right? Because i bet the cube is a supercool weapon.[/quote]

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patrick wrote:
I like MikeyJ's idea, but...

Quote:
We know that someone somewhere managed to transport the Cube to Earth.


...do we? Embarassed


Assuming that the cube we are hunting for is the real one and not a clone then yes, the Cube was moved from Perplex City to Earth. How, when and where this occured are different questions though...
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sledgecallier wrote:
MikeyJ has a point. We know that someone somewhere managed to transport the Cube to Earth. (On the other hand, when did the people of Perplex City become aware of Earth?) It may be that these were just the trials. However, the tone of the diary entries makes me think that the test subjects are not going to be entering into this willingly and would not be likely to survive.


If you intended to send me to perplex city using some machine you invented, would you expect me to survive?

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