Learning... [Beckett echoes, thoughtful as he reflects back on Rydia's story.]
It certainly sounds plausible. But learning to what? Appear in forms that would be significant to us? To what end? It wasn't trying to communicate, unless it was the act of communication itself that was deadly. [A beat. Well, it could be...] which is not itself impossible, if we go back to the theory that it is something beyond the capacity of a human-like mind to comprehend. Very Old Testament. "Man shall not see me and live"? That would be why it needs the Admin.
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Date: 2016-04-11 01:59 pm (UTC)It certainly sounds plausible. But learning to what? Appear in forms that would be significant to us? To what end? It wasn't trying to communicate, unless it was the act of communication itself that was deadly. [A beat. Well, it could be...] which is not itself impossible, if we go back to the theory that it is something beyond the capacity of a human-like mind to comprehend. Very Old Testament. "Man shall not see me and live"? That would be why it needs the Admin.