"He lived with regret at his own table– for his own sake have mercy upon him."
---Tolstoyish
The universe surrounds us with its laws and notions, and in many cases it takes a clever and discerning mind to tease Nature's ways out into the light where they can be clearly seen.
Perhaps there exists in potentia the Greatest Book, the Ultimate Bible, the Definitive Word the way that the fabulous kingdom of Amber hides within its endless reflected and distorted images.
Hidden deep within the enormous library of possible books, then could be the ur-Book. What can not be found by logic might be stumbled upon by oracles, and as such, the algorithmic genii may as yet prove fruitful.
"The book had produced. Night was disturbed by the words to avert the
latter, and hope, I not suppose, the pathless seas, and from my solitary
isle like abhorred."
--Schmipsum
Of course, this is just a expansion of my favorite hobby. Considering the Doc Savage Canon as if it is reflections of real events is walking the thin edge of paranoia and conspiracy. I always feel the classic example of this is the Holy Blood/Holy Grail madness, crowned by Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum* Its a hobby that is given an extra thrill by the possibility that at some point I will become convinced by my own research that Clark Savage was real, and at that point will become irretrievably mad.
The Insane Gods of Chaos are sprung, like all Gods, from our foreheads, after all. Using software Markov Generators and Completion Anticipators ups the game, improves the mirror we gesticulate in front of.
Now its time to start running these programs upon the Canon, and see if we can shake out new adventures from the echos of the Ultimate Book.
"I have graven it within the hills, and my vengeance upon the dust within the rock."
--Edgar Allen Poe
*Proving yet again that a intelligent academic can exceed any madman's excesses.
