[On God Forgot]
>I have always tended to see 90% + of them as normal people living normal
>lives, with the techno-stuff limited to madmen like Leonardo the
>Inventor.
Mad? You call me MAD?!? I will tell you, Sir, that you are impossibly ignorant of the reason for our way of life. What we do, sir, is not madness. We are the sane ones. It is you who engage in acts of normalcy that betray the very reason the Creator made you. Because of this, you are the one who is insane.
Know that the Creator has forgotten us because we had made NOTHING that could compare with His Creation. He has given us existance, a priceless gift and we have *bored* him! In tears, He left us seeking more interesting pasttimes and found them. Hence He Forgot us and damned us to a world of mundanity. But we are not *incapable* of making something that could compare His Creation. We have the original Spark of Creativity within us. By engaging in cunning acts, we seek to fan this spark into a blazing beacon. Not by faith, but only by Acts of Invention will the Creator turn His Immortal Eye towards us and reward us with Solace.
Henceforth every hour of our lives, we wrack our brains in an attempt to invent. One day, we shall create the Machine that will return the Creator to us. This Machine will bespeak such ingenuity in its construction that the Creator will espy it from afar. In examining its nonsuch artifice, He will be drawn into the Machine and be made to descend down to our world to bless us. I have only the barest outlines of how the Deux Ex Machina might be built and must seek to observe the creations of others to draw further inspiration before I can even frame its symmetry!
Thus not only am I, Leonardo, an inventor of ingenious engines but so are my fellow inventors. Our creativity is not confined to us but extends the length and breadth of the nation. Every one of us seeks to bring about some new innovation to bring about the Return of the Creator. To slack in this duty is to delay His Return which is considered by us to be a henious crime. It is a common mistake by outsiders to assume that because most of us do not make machines, the talars, the farmers and the warriors lack creativity. This is not so! All of us must work hard in creativity to make up for the outsiders who know not the reason for the Creator's disappearance.
Our warriors are not equipped with swords but devices of their own imagination. My own bodyguard wears a suit of armour that has scissors for gauntlets that he himself designed. His wife wears boots that have daggers attached so she can stab people in the kneecaps. Our most famous champion is known for his repeating hand-held catapult.
Our farmers spend their spare time in creating new forms of buildings, furniture, clothing, cooking and shrubbery! I saw a farmer the other day who had built his house out of cold porridge and ate mud for breakfast. Our Talars make all manners of sculptures, paintings, songs, customes and jewellery. Above the marketplace at Casino Town is an invisible floating scuplture of a giant hand. It was made by the Grand Talar to remind us that each of us in engaging in individual Acts of Creation is led, as if by an invisible hand, to achieve the best good for all. I trust that such a profound truth needs no further explication.
>God Forgot inventions would be more likely to run amok in the
>countryside and have to be "put down", than to be used by the people or
>officials.
"put down"? You mean to destroy our creations? You FOOL! If they are destroyed, then the Creator will never see what contrivances we have constructed! We will never allow our creations to be destroyed. The Creator did not destroy us when we bored Him, a crime beyond forgiveness, so what colour of right do we have to smite our own creations? If the machines do not filfull the purpose that we have made them for, then that is no fault of its own. We merely take steps to see that we come to no harm so that we can make new creations. If a machine tears down a house, then we do not destroy the machine. What has it done wrong? We simply build another one and rejoice that we have an opportunity to create anew.
You are just as bad as the Damnable God Learners who forced us to REPEAT ourselves! By forcing us to duplicate our works we were stiffled in our creative prowess and so were in danger of stamping out the Spark of Creation. Be thankful that most of the torture instruments that we made for their punishment are still carrying out their original duty....
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