Either way there isn't a great deal of thought being afforded to us, is there? In the end we're still the pawns on someone else's chessboard — and we have no idea how the game might be proceeding around us, when all we can do is move forward one space at a time.
when you put it that way it sounds both entirely logical and also totally depressing. i know this is not the first time people have been told the people we're remembering are us. something something giant sphinx with infinite knowledge. but at the same time i have to wonder if we are not being told how the game's proceeding because they don't know either until they see what we're doing. what would you call something like that?
There's a Portuguese term, "desenrascanço", which doesn't have any particularly good English equivalent, but that essentially describes the phenomenon you're thinking of, I think.
The closest I've heard to defining it in English is "pulling a MacGyver".
huh. sounds about as accurate as anything else. and it is better to pull a macgyver, i guess, than be a macguffin. i know it is probably not my place to say miss. uh. sandiego (?) but i'm not sure entirely going back to who we were is the end game. so don't worry about that too much. thanks for the food for thought though.
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i know this is not the first time people have been told the people we're remembering are us. something something giant sphinx with infinite knowledge.
but at the same time i have to wonder if we are not being told how the game's proceeding because they don't know either until they see what we're doing.
what would you call something like that?
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The closest I've heard to defining it in English is "pulling a MacGyver".
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sounds about as accurate as anything else.
and it is better to pull a macgyver, i guess, than be a macguffin.
i know it is probably not my place to say miss. uh. sandiego (?) but i'm not sure entirely going back to who we were is the end game. so don't worry about that too much.
thanks for the food for thought though.