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[RT] Unsong Chapter 23: Now Descendeth Out Of Heaven A City
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Author: u/MildlyMegalomaniacal *
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URL: http://unsongbook.com/chapter-23-now-descendeth-out-of-heaven-a-city/
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Score: 44
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Created: 2016-06-05T19:57:34
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u/LiteralHeadCannon [+13] (18 minutes later)
Neil Armstrong confirmed for RHOG. Captain Nemo practically confirmed for God.
u/ArgentStonecutter [+7] Emergency Mustelid Hologram (54 minutes later)
So even God is having trouble hooking up with Metatron.
Sounds like one of those pre-cellphone comedy schticks where two people keep just missing each other.
u/ZeroNihilist [+10] (an hour later)
Or possibly Nemo is Metatron, and his ship (the Not a Metaphor) is in fact appearing at the locations as predicted.
Doesn't appear to make sense with the previous chapter's description:
Since the cracks appeared in the sky, word had come from sailors of a mysterious boat, all purple with golden sails. They would see it on the horizon, but when they tried to approach it vanished at impossible speeds. Sometimes atop the boat they would spot a light, brilliant shining white, like an angelic figure. And the angels said ah, yes, it is Metatron risen from the deep, but you will not catch him, for he keeps his own counsel. And none see him and live.
But I've never let a story get in the way of good tinfoil.
u/Escapement [+3] Ankh-Morpork City Watch (7 hours later)
Not a Metaphor anagrams neatly to Hop a Metatron - possibly displaying their intent to 'jump' the Metatron, as a group.
Honestly, I think the one thing that Captain Nemo very definitely is not is an ordinary human being.
Edit: Actually, I could see him turning out to be some super enlightened guy, actually. I could see it turning out that Captain Nemo is in some respect a reaction to The Illuminatus! Trilogy's Hagbard Celine (and therefore a second-order reaction to Atlas Shrugged's Ragnar Danneskjöld, who Hagbard Celine is in some respects a reaction to). The whole 'mysterious figure who is enlightened and sails in a mysteriously amazingly powerful ship that is colored unusually dispensing whatever plot-actions are required' archetype is something I could definitely see Scott drawing on.
u/TeslaWasRobbed [+3] (a day later)
Not A Metaphor -> Hop A Metatron
This has to be the laziest anagram ever...
u/Frommerman [+3] (53 minutes later)
Why would god be bilking rich people out of money on the hope of speaking to him?
u/UltraRedSpectrum [+11] (2 hours later)
God works in mysterious ways.
u/callmebrotherg [+5] now posting as /u/callmesalticidae (a day later)
So long as he leaves the cabin now and then, they did talk to God, didn't they? >:P
u/ulyssessword [+3] (6 hours later)
I should start tracking my predictions. I got this and Ana's role in Aaron's rescue right, but I'm predictably forgetful about the things I got wrong.
u/None [+1] (2 days later)
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u/LiteralHeadCannon [+1] (5 days later)
God is outside of time.
u/abcd_z [+12] (10 hours later)
arm strong is Thy hand
Oh. My. God. How long has he been planning that one?
u/alexanderwales [+7] Time flies like an arrow (an hour later)
The Name they're referring to is the Mistral Name, rather than the Tempestuous Name, right? That was given to Ana by her laptop in Ch 11:
And the third the Mistral Name, which according to the document’s somewhat ominous description “called the winds”.
So presumably there's some time traveler or precog or reality bender who fully intended Ana to be on this ship. Why?
u/None [+2] (an hour later)
Because the plot, duh.
or Adam Cadmon or TINACBNIEAC or whatever
u/MugaSofer [+3] (2 days later)
Or Sarah. Remember when we all assumed Sarah was behind everything? Freaking teleporting laptop.
u/Chronophilia [+2] sci-fi ≠ futurology (an hour later)
... ah, "This Is Not A Coincidence Because Nothing Is Ever A Coincidence". I read that as some version of MultivAC from The Last Question.
^(these are not analog computers because nothing is ever analog computers)
u/awesomeideas [+1] Dai stiho, cousin. (2 days later)
This too INACBNIEAC. ^^^^One ^^^^day, ^^^^one ^^^^hour, ^^^^one ^^^^minute.
u/Escapement [+4] Ankh-Morpork City Watch (2 hours later)
This is probably irrelevant, but:
“IN ORDER TO INSTANTIATE THE NEW JERUSALEM, YOU MUST GATHER TOGETHER ALL OF THE LSD IN THE CITY AND PLACE IT IN A RESERVOIR WHICH I WILL SHOW YOU"
It feels like this "which I will show you" formulation is very similar to God's demand of Abraham that he take his son to be sacrificed:
NIV Genesis 22:2
"Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.”
(I only remembered this because of Hyperion. The Scholar's Tale: The River Lethe's Taste is Bitter has left scars)
u/None [+3] (9 hours later)
Any connection between mountains and san francisco? If not its probably just bible speak