Day 5

The Sirens of Titan Lesson Plan

Discussion of Thought Questions

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    When Salo attempts to describe "hypnotic anarchy" to Rumfoord, he says, "Either you understand at once what it is...or there is no sense in trying to explain it to you" (274). Given who Salo is, what is the significance of this statement?

    Given Salo's advanced intellect and technological ability, Salo is in effect speaking to Rumfoord here in the way a god might speak to a human. The capacities and considerations of an entity like Salo, who resembles a god in his complete transcendence of human ability and knowledge, are so advanced that explaining a concept to a human would prove fruitless, as Salo would then need to describe endless other principles or ideas before...

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