MDDM Ch. 45: Monsters and "Angels"

[Dave Monroe]

Again, I would direct both yr, er, attentions to not
only the history of angels as uncanny, inhuman beings,
but also to the pervasive characterization of
artificial intelligences (such as they exist, at least
in fiction) as angelic.  Yr both right, so there ...

--- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> jbor wrote:
> > 
> > I don't think the Duck is meant to be or represent
> > any sort of heavenly angel or religious being at
> > all. She's more a type of Frankenstein's
> > Monster, in fact, "transform'd by Love" (451.5). 
> 
> But that's what the text presents--the duck as an
> angel.  Moreover, that's what the text of
> Frankenstein presents as well, the creature as
> an angel.

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