ATDTDA (13) - Bria

mikebailey at speakeasy.net mikebailey at speakeasy.net
Mon Jul 16 22:08:15 CDT 2007


p 354:
"'Problem'?  It should be an *unhappy* ending?" Bria puzzled.
"Like those bloody horror shows they put on over there in 
Paris, France?"


French revolution?  guillotine?  Still famous today,
another 100 years later, so why not?


kelber:
>
> ...instead of two different pieces of one body, there are now two complete individuals walking around, who are identical in every way, capisci?'" (bottom of p. 354-355)
>

and Bria: (355)

"Is it a happy ending?  Do they go back to being
one person again?"

He stared at his shoes, and Bria understood that she
was maybe the only one in the house he could've counted on
to ask this question.

(maybe not germane, but Briah is one of the 4 worlds
in Cabbalism http://www.psyche.com/psyche/lex/qbl/4worlds.html)


> The film "The Prestige" came out a couple of weeks before ATD and
> deals precisely with this intersection of magic and science. Worth seeing for anyone who hasn't already (and much better than the book version).
>

and there's a representation of Tesla's Colorado installation...







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