MoS rambling while I'm at lunch.

[bzarcher]

Beatriz - is she perhaps the Good Angel to Virgil's Faust? I keep thinking that the quote I found for her was a bit too accurate.

She seems to be an atypical SRMD sufferer, for that matter. She sees the desire to conquer the world, but she sems to have driven it all into her research. She's seen the power and the fire, but controls it and uses it for herself, rather than being used by it.

She's offered Virgil many outs, and tried to give him every freedom she could, but he never quite figured out how to reach her.

And the more I think about her, she seems almost more like a Martian than a mad scientist...

What are the chances that Beatriz could be a missing link between SRMD and the more stable Martians?

Comments

[ardaniel]

Remember that Beatrice is, depending on who you ask, either Dante Aligheri's great love who motivated a great deal of his works, his fictional muse and invention, or an allegorical symbol of an overriding concept that united secret society members of his era.

What's uncontested is that, in the Divine Comedy, she comes forth to rescue him from Hell and Purgatory and bring him to Paradise...

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dante.htm

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Good catch - I was focusing a bit too much on Marlowe...

Dammit, that month of hiatus is at the worst possible time.