Character, book, and author names under the cut
James St. Clair- Dark Rise Series by C.S. Pacat
Shuos Jedao- Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
Jack Alston/Lord Hawthorn- The Last Binding Trilogy by Freya Marske
Alastair Carstairs- The Last Hours by Cassandra Clare
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Leon Leonidoff, production director of Radio City Music Hall, watches a dress rehearsal on the great stage from the twelfth row, February 2, 1933. The board in front of him contains a light chart, showing all of the 2,000 lighting combinations possible, with control buttons. It also has a microphone, making it possible to speak to any employee without having to leave his seat.
Photo: Associated Press via the Chattanooga Times Free Press
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on the importance (and lack) of fontainian memory
"people don't realize how much they rely on their eyes to tell them the truth. but what you see is not real. it's all a show.
"and every part of the show is carefully controlled."
"controlled how?"
"by choosing the right place, the right time...and the right people. whoever controls these three, controls everything."
- lyney, the final feast
lyney is talking about magic, but with the implication of an epidemic of memory loss in fontaine, this might have another meaning.
what happens when people can no longer rely on their minds, their recollections, their past to make decisions? what else is left, then, if not the present moment - if not what they can only see with their own eyes.
if you don't remember the functions that create the show, then you become part of it. without that recollection, you can only see to believe.
people who've lost their ideals. their values. their principles. people who can only rely on what is being shown. people who can no longer make proper judgements and, thus, depend on intelligent machinery to give the final ruling in any serious matter.
and what happens when the show is altered? the machinery tampered with?
and wouldn't that, then, be so easy a way to corrupt a nation?
if the important people do not remember why they are important, then they are just actors.
if they are being controlled or influenced by someone else, then they are puppets. false images of what they represent. props meant to instill artificial hope and security in the populace.
but, they can't help it. everything they ever know is only in the now. anything else, whether by human dependence or divine interference, has long been forgotten.
in fontaine, seeing is believing.
but when the only things people see may not even be real (the lyney & lynette props)...how can they not believe a lie?
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