WARNING to those who haven’t listened to this episode yet.
I suggest you avoid my mistake–do not listen to this one right before bed! It was just graphic enough, for my suggestible pre-sleep state, to show up in my dreams. The Vivisector would’ve loved them, but you might not!
I choose to believe the strings were acting with volition. (choosing words carefully–sorry if it’s stilted.) If they had nerves to sense pain, they could well have them to control some movement. The Vivisectors skills seem far too crude for microneurosurgery.
It’s amazing what one can learn to move with training and practice. I knew a mime who could move his toes individually, for instance. So, a possibly irony arises: perhaps the Vivisector, as he played and tortured his harp over the years, was also training its choir to isolate and animate those parts that had become the strings.
…because that would be fitting and fiendishly satisfying. And cleverly cathartic.
Zebulon, would you really call that music? or are you just playing devil’s advocate? The harp bought new meaning to the phrase “instrument of torture.”
August 14th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
Thank you, Zan, for not leaving the harp in eternal torment. Could the “strings” have tightened on purpose?
August 15th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
WARNING to those who haven’t listened to this episode yet.
I suggest you avoid my mistake–do not listen to this one right before bed! It was just graphic enough, for my suggestible pre-sleep state, to show up in my dreams. The Vivisector would’ve loved them, but you might not!
August 15th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
One other thing. I had no advanced clue about Golly’s discovery. Zan I don’t think it was as obvious as you thought! I had believed it was all a ruse.
August 15th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
I hate it whenever any musical instrument gets destroyed…
August 18th, 2007 at 11:30 am
Gail,
I choose to believe the strings were acting with volition. (choosing words carefully–sorry if it’s stilted.) If they had nerves to sense pain, they could well have them to control some movement. The Vivisectors skills seem far too crude for microneurosurgery.
It’s amazing what one can learn to move with training and practice. I knew a mime who could move his toes individually, for instance. So, a possibly irony arises: perhaps the Vivisector, as he played and tortured his harp over the years, was also training its choir to isolate and animate those parts that had become the strings.
August 19th, 2007 at 4:29 pm
…because that would be fitting and fiendishly satisfying. And cleverly cathartic.
Zebulon, would you really call that music? or are you just playing devil’s advocate? The harp bought new meaning to the phrase “instrument of torture.”