But lets torture the analogy Geoff might have been trying to make. How do the current American political parties come down on the war in heaven? Is it blue-team is the "no hell realms" faction and red team is "hell has its uses"?
Grey Area is the one who understood that the Minds in the ITG were high on their own righteousness, and he was the only one with the courage to actually engage directly with the anomaly that was causing the whole situation in the first place
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ah, what you're saying is "Gray Area did nothing wrong"?
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Gray Area was exactly as wrong as human(oid) history is wrong, which is to say, very wrong, in millions of fascinating new ways, which was Banks' point right?
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also: did you just assume a Mind's gender?!
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Sleeper Service was written off as an eccentric but had taken up a sacred duty of safely shepherding the ones who had decided "this heaven gives me migraine" and wanted to sleep it offhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vPonjXOfYo …
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it's a remarkable corpus of work that fully explores its own contradictions and intricacies, and in my analysis, comes down on the side of the outsider, the outcast, the eccentric
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You make a persuasive case, but I put it to you that, with sufficiently creative reading, one can say the same thing about, say, "The Clangers."
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ok ok you just British'd me out on that one. Please trans-Atlanticize that for me.
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oh, wow, you are missing out! It's a tv series about a civilization of creatures knitted from wool who live on the moon under the protection of... I think they're dustbin lids that they use to cover craters to create a living space.
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that sounds...exceptional
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It was. I guess it's due for a hollywood reboot at some point.
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