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tBotNS 2:31 The Cleansing PART 2 - Gene Wolfe‘s The Claw of the Conciliator, The Book of the New Sun

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Bonus Patron Content: Gene Wolfe's The Green Wall Said: 3;09:50

The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 31 "The Cleansing" Part 2

The séance starts at last.  And then it all goes to hell. Leaving us to ponder what really happened. But, on the upside, we have finally finished the Claw of the Conciliator.

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Given the date he wrote this, I'm thinking the "green wall" is a large computer screen, many of which were green at that point in time; one of my first monitors in the late 70s was a black and green monitor (green text on a black background). When on, it was a faint green rather than a total black. The aliens being rational but unable to sacrifice for the whole is essentially a version of the "tragedy of the commons". Each individual makes a rational decision not to sacrifice their time or resources for a common need, because it will end up provided no matter what, so why hurt themselves; but when everyone makes that choice, the common good doesn't end up happening, which may be infrastructure, defense, or whatever.

Re: "The Green Wall Said," I will make the Biblical reference to the Feast of Belshazzar, in Daniel 5:5-12, as a case where people were alarmed, puzzled, and amazed by words appearing on the wall.


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