{"id":960,"date":"2003-05-08T16:21:37","date_gmt":"2003-05-08T16:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=960"},"modified":"2003-05-08T16:21:37","modified_gmt":"2003-05-08T16:21:37","slug":"quotables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2003\/05\/quotables\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two really funny bits from <a title=\"http:\/\/www.highclearing.com\/nobilis\/blog.html\">Thought-Records<\/a>, a Nobilis-oriented blog.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nFirst, a debate with the insane-but-highly-motivated Power of Irony:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;Powers who are artists are not part of the estate of Artists,&#8221; she intoned, clearly having gotten her hands on first-edition Nobilis at some point.<br \/>\n&#8220;Powers who are warriors are not part of the estate of Warriors,&#8221; she continued, and so on through the litany.<br \/>\n&#8220;Don&#8217;t you see why I have to kill you?&#8221; she asked then. (She was the Power of Irony.) &#8220;We Powers are ourselves not part of the elements of Creation. And who comes from outside Creation? The Excrucians, of course. We already know about so-called Mimics. But it turns out&#8230;[she almost said &#8220;ironically&#8221;] we are just deeper-cover mimics. We think we&#8217;re upholding reality when we&#8217;re actually programmed to destroy it. Only I was in a position to figure this out.<br \/>\n&#8220;Evelyn,&#8221; she said to the Power of Evolution, &#8220;you know that one of your own capabilities is to destroy the things of your estate. Why do you think that is? We&#8217;re the enemy!&#8221;<Br><br \/>\n&#8220;Why don&#8217;t you kill yourself, then?&#8221; Evelyn asked her.<br \/>\n&#8220;I have to be last.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And a great NPC description:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Power of Manned Space Flight, who acts and talks exactly like Flashheart from Blackadder.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two really funny bits from Thought-Records, a Nobilis-oriented blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}