Thoughts on jokes, string, pre-CW

[Ashley]

Ello I've been researching of late (working on my own world-building) and my convoluted thought-paths happened to have lead me to Al Jazari and Hero.

Their work on automata and hydraulics relevent here. Well theres a whole lot which has parralels with pre-CW, artificing, the Underthing & four plate door.

Got side tracked for a while considering that the plates on the door may actually be windows for displaying certain data, the room beyound containing the machinery, which one would access with that doors particular key. Think of the displays of the Antikethera machine. Only rather than merely data input-output, it actually provides co-ordinates. The door opening ** according to the programming.

Then, of course, given the course of the thoughts that had lead to this, my sub'con' displayed the passages re: Manifold Maths, Hespe's story of Jax and the unfolding house, the static-continuum nature of Faen. And wondering that that door, rather than just being some service passage, was actually a cross-dimensional portal.

Symbols of the seasons, solar system & Alchemy, pretty fronts for some impressive knowings.

I also stumbled across this and had to laugh, wondering if Rothfuss was tweaking our noses a bit.

"What Sharkey found was that Hero, who had designed everything from the aeolipile (the world's first steam-engine, see picture above) to "a vending machine that dispensed a shot of holy water in exchange for a coin," had designed a mobile theatre, complete with Dionysus and some female worshippers, all automata, which came in on a sort of self-propelled, self-guided cart. Sharkey saw the similarity to da Vinci's lion at once. But when he looked in Hero's Peri automatopoietikes ("On automata-making"), it became clear: this theatre was actually programmable -- using string for the programming language."

http://cabinet-of-wonders.blogspot.co...

So we have a theatre, programmable machinery & string no less. Wonder if Hero's Dionysus had red hair? In KKC we have the Yllish and their string language, which may very well work in that it *programmes the mind*. Then we have the Ruh and red hair that is mistaken for Yllish (as well as the other linking factors between them.) And of course that chaotic element :)


Any thoughts?

[Ashley]

Oh and it did also lead me to wondering if the Locleos box is actually a machine, alog the lines of the Antiyethera but ussing KKC world 'magic' for powersource. The links with the moon, part of Ludis' name being trapped, may very well be an idicator to the power source.

Which also links in with the tidal quality of Faen.

Perhaps the Yllish is instructions on its use, a remote control or data display device re. the doorway machinery between 4C's & Faen?