He followed the control deck corridor to its end, where a trapezoidal door was marked “Authorized Personnel Only.” This was written on a sign beneath the depiction of an optical illusion—a triangular arrangement of bars that could not exist in real life.
I don't know if it will actually happen as such, but I feel like a proper interview between Lamont and Phobos would be either amazing, or very brief and perplexing (or both).
I feel like Phobos, insofar as we've gotten to know him at all (and presuming the old incarnation still fits at all) is the kind of person who actually doesn't "revel in the luxury of being circumspect" at all, but is hampered by his alien-ness and the limitations of his audience to understand the concepts his would love to share with them.
I see him very much as a "big brother" figure as Carter called him. He loves humanity and wants to see his 'little brother' flourish, but he doesn't know how to relate to it very well, and human culture and science hasn't advanced enough for us to understand the knowledge he yearns to bestow. My take up to now anyway.
So Lamont could actually look forward to straight answers from Phobos, in theory. In practice, it's probably impossible, and they'd equally be pained by that. As an old Jewish proverb about teachers goes, "more than the calf wants the suckle, the mother wants to nurse."
Read on, my friend! The perspective of Phobos is something that I'm eager to explore over time in this more long-form media, and I may occasionally overindulge in that area. The next two entries could be a case in point.
I don't know if it will actually happen as such, but I feel like a proper interview between Lamont and Phobos would be either amazing, or very brief and perplexing (or both).
I feel like Phobos, insofar as we've gotten to know him at all (and presuming the old incarnation still fits at all) is the kind of person who actually doesn't "revel in the luxury of being circumspect" at all, but is hampered by his alien-ness and the limitations of his audience to understand the concepts his would love to share with them.
I see him very much as a "big brother" figure as Carter called him. He loves humanity and wants to see his 'little brother' flourish, but he doesn't know how to relate to it very well, and human culture and science hasn't advanced enough for us to understand the knowledge he yearns to bestow. My take up to now anyway.
So Lamont could actually look forward to straight answers from Phobos, in theory. In practice, it's probably impossible, and they'd equally be pained by that. As an old Jewish proverb about teachers goes, "more than the calf wants the suckle, the mother wants to nurse."
Read on, my friend! The perspective of Phobos is something that I'm eager to explore over time in this more long-form media, and I may occasionally overindulge in that area. The next two entries could be a case in point.