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Date Posted: 19:22:44 07/17/03 Thu
Author: AntiPaul
Subject: I have been here
In reply to: IDAHO 's message, "Where have you been?" on 01:26:11 07/17/03 Thu

Idaho:

I have followed the Machine debate with great interest. I have occasionally contributed whenever I thought I had something marginally worthwhile to say (remember the Siona Test Machine Vision book quotes on the OTHER site?).

My purpose was not to rehash whether Machines are coming; I'm convinced that they are. My question is why the hell would Frank put them in Book 7 in the 1st place. Frank said he was 1st and foremost in the entertainment business. Yes the machines will be entertaining, but so what?

I think the Machines are a foil for some of Frank's big themes. Sister Chenoeh is a huge symbol of what the BG should and did become: the Noble Purpose. They create and mature humans on a large scale. They finally embrace Leto's weakness: Love. A weakness he felt necessary for his Golden Path. Leto wanted Humans to create a future independent of Prescience and failings of Paul.

Idaho, you've heard this before and read this all before and your posts are well thought out and clear. I've heard reasons that the Machines are coming but may have missed the discussion of why they are coming; the Machines and starnge face dancers are a clever plot devises afterall.

AntiPaul

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