House Tindal. Physicist, Head of the Crystal One development team and all around curious man. A late term cancer patient, Dr. Gage heads out to Bellisarius Territory to settle his own curiosity about some flaws in the eyewitness reports. He now finds himself spending the last days of his life with his reformed team of Crystal One scientists in an attempt to prevent the literal end of the world.
James does pose an interesting question for readers. How do you use power to control the behavior of those around you, even if that power is ‘only’ the power of words?
If you gained the power of a ‘Clarence,’ how would you act and react withthe world around you? What are the consequences of such actions to others? What are the long-term consequences for yourself and your loved ones?
In the real world, the question can be posed: Are you an honorable and ethical human being? Do you choose to control others, beyond assuring your own safety?
James has posed such questions to his readers throughout this story. He’s asking the big questions, here. The sorts of quetions we normally wouldn’t ask ourselves.
I agree Warren. The power of words is an awesome power. Look at what one sawed off, house painter with a crappy mustache did back at the beginning of the 20th century. His words started a movement that narrowly missed becoming world domination. It was his greatest strength. Fortunately he also suffered from hubris and didn’t listen to too well to those around him and he had another power house in the words department, Winston Churchill who opposed him and with one single speech lifted the morale of a nation and gave them hope.
As a former minister I’ve seen and felt the power of words myself from the pulpit. When you say the right things in the right way at the right time, its like magic.
If you gained the power of a ‘Clarence,’ how would you act and react withthe world around you? What are the consequences of such actions to others? What are the long-term consequences for yourself and your loved ones?
In the real world, the question can be posed: Are you an honorable and ethical human being? Do you choose to control others, beyond assuring your own safety?
James has posed such questions to his readers throughout this story. He’s asking the big questions, here. The sorts of quetions we normally wouldn’t ask ourselves.
(It’s brilliant.)
As a former minister I’ve seen and felt the power of words myself from the pulpit. When you say the right things in the right way at the right time, its like magic.