All Men Dream of Earthwomen, Noetic File 20.0 The Chamber of Judgment
All Men Dream of Earthwomen, Noetic File 20.0 The Chamber of Judgment, is now posted.
Noetic File 20.0: The Chamber of Judgment
The famous trial sequence and the Walk of Woe is here portrayed.
We are taking as authentic Melanchthe’s mnemonic audio recitation, with inaudibilities reconstructed by posthuman analysis.
It is to be noted that the famed Apologia of Lepseudo is an elaboration and an expansion on what the original noetic file is no more than the Narrator’s ironic summation of the flawed legal process.
Likewise the character of the samurai attorney, Meitantei Peru Mason, who figures so prominently in ballet, operetta, decision-tree variations, is an invention of later poets. There is no evidence of samurai on Mother Earth after the Meiji Restoration, despite their nearly universal appearance on jars, screens, and fans kept as relics of Earth.
The image of judges wearing wigs and black robes is not found in any record other than this poem. It may be a literary invention of the author, meant to show the judicial system was feminine. Wearing wigs and slinky black dresses was known to be a stereotypical female behavior of the two recognized sexes of that early era.
Likewise, the “seven stations” of the Walk of Woe, with its memorable device of ever greater weight accompanying each step as the exiled narrator moves to outer levels before reaching the ship, is a later inventions: the original file is curt, and there is no mention of any encounter with a beggar woman on his walk to the exile ship, nor that she is his long-lost mother or anyone else’s mother.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
