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On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Jim Sharkey wrote: > Maybe I'm overanalyzing... > > Anyway, what did you think of our protagonist? I liked how DB took his > normal use of several different viewpoints to tell a story and turned it > on its ear, as each "I" was one person, but not just one. Very nifty. That was cool. I can see DB possibly spinning of the ditto-universe into a franchise for golem-spy-sci-fi thrillers done by folks like Kevin J Anderson. ;-) > I think Albert Morris's copying skills tied up the reason his Frankie was > a Frankie very well. That green, IMO, was actually not a green at all, in > terms of its usual meaning in this world, but it was as exact a copy as > one could make. It was as if Albert actually duplicated his whole self, > rather than just the applicable parts as usual. That's really why the > Green went Frankie, IMO. My thought was that *all* of his golems that day were Frankies, enabling them to behave more independently and more competently than they might otherwise have done. A Frankie is defined by willful deviation from the rig's intent, but that doesn't mean the deviation is necessarily *bad.* Marvin Long Austin, Texas
