Whose maestro's tin baton conducts the rhyme
Remains a riddle he can't yet decrypt:
An android Oz, a cyborg King, a prime
Director architecting, nondescript
And hid inside an atom's quantum shell,
A voice that strings, recursive, through and through
From AI Isengards. Profound, this Hell
Was made a Heaven: here, the drones eschew
Their eschatology and utter praise,
Ave Marias digitized. He hears
The domo arigatos, sees the glaze
Across bionic eyes, and disappears,
Rejecting his bequest for Kilroy's groove;
More feebly than before, the people move.
3 comments:
Wow. I'm getting in over my head by now, the imagery tapping deep into the emerging picture, supporting my assessment beautifully, yet beyond my limited knowledge. Awesome.
Fascinated yet nearly floundering, I dread to suggest something stupid.
This is unfolding so rich in its message, impressive and potent. A study of the product of the modern gospel and society's ideals...or am I way off? Sure seemed to fit.
It's not quite so over your head! The main reference here is to the Styx song "Mr. Roboto," from which most of the story is borrowed. Here, QED sees the modern men but cannot see their master. Being out of order, he starts to cause the sequence of people to come undone, but can't help abandon his robotic heritage in favor of the one promised by Kilroy (who is, in the song, a human disguised as a robot.) And the middle reference is directly to Milton's Paradise Lost.
Well, thank you, but I was googling like crazy, and then realizing how late it had become at my end (which was 11:25PM not 10), and how prone we are to make mistakes that seem brilliant at that hour but smell foul when we arise, further, how many I had left to consider....Added to that, my head was literally spinning out of reason-ablility. I could not think clearly until I closed up the pc and left. Turns out perusing these to understand and give a half-decent critique had been a bit of a chore (don't ask me what that proves, 'cause I don't want to hear the discouraging reality, hahaha).
Being unfamiliar with the song, I never thought of it but read/skimmed/bounced around the wiki article on the origins of Kilroy for elucidation. I shall see about finding the song for the real meaning, thanks for telling me.
Ah, excellent. Guess I'd better check out Paradise Lost too!
Thanks for all the explanations.
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