(urth) Someday they'll want us

James Wynn crushtv at gmail.com
Fri Jun 25 07:40:50 PDT 2010


>> I think the only manipulator who actually counts is Mr. Million. All the
>> other clones are his test subjects. Note that Auntie Jeanine died rather
>> precipitously after she began acting as though she owned the house.
>>      
>
> An interesting perspective! I had tended to think of Mr. Million as a kindly
> great grandfather with a true soft spot for his boys (David too, yes?) who
> perhaps regretted the process he set in motion and was concerned for the
> self-clones which had been sold around the city as slaves. I guess that
> kindly aspect is perverted by the fact that it is a monstrous sort of conceited
> self-love.
>
> If you are correct that Mr. Million remains a manipulative, murderous person
> I guess that is hardly a shocker, given the details of the plot. Thanks for a
> new perspective. 		 	   		
>
>    
Another hint is Number 5's dream. The dead man steering the ship has Mr 
Million's face. Obviously it is his own face too. But Number 5 
specifically connected it with Mr. Million.



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