The Pandora Sequence: the Jesus Incident, the Lazarus Effect, the Ascension Factor
“Inevitably, you must ask: Is consciousness only a special kind of hallucination? Do you raise consciousness or lower its threshold? The danger in the latter course is that you bring up the military analogue: you are confined to action.—Original Charge to the Voidship Chaplain/PsychiatristON THESE nightside walks through the ship, Oakes liked to move without purpose, without the persona of Ceepee tagging along. He had worked long and hard to remain just a name both shipside and groundside. Few s...aw his face and most of his official duties were carried out by minions. There was the routine WorShip in the corridor chapels, the food allotments groundside, a minimal endorsement of the many functions that the carried out with no human intervention. Ceepee rule was supposed to be nominal. But he wanted more.Kingston had once said: “We have too damned much idle time. We’re idle hands and we can get into trouble.”Memories of Kingston were much with Oakes this night as he took his nocturnal prowl.MoreLess
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