>I was pondering Peter's original point about the Illumination of Lunar
>bureaucrats, and about the means by which they attain the desired state.
>I still can't quite accept Illumination-By-Rote as a vaiable path to
>Illumination, but I think I have a viable counter proposal.
>I submit that the very structure of the Lunar bureacracy is a clerical
>eqivalent of the Puzzle Canal in Pavis.
So? This is hardly incompatible with the standardized Riddle list. To begin to comprehend Illumination requires a primer to make the leap to the status of Illuminate. IMO the Riddle lists exits for this purpose. Merely having people discover it by themselves would take far too long for the perpetuation of the Nomenklatura. One could arrive at the equivalent of a batchelor's degree by being stuck in a library, lab etc but it is much quicker and more effective to have a teacher guiding you along the way. From the initial Illumination, IMO, one can ponder more subtle enigmas (like the Lunar Bureacracy, workings of) that will be lost on a mundane. Think of this as Postgraduate studies...
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