leftcherry.blogg.se

The outer worlds the empty man
The outer worlds the empty man









the outer worlds the empty man

Chaney shared information with him on the whereabouts of one of the philosophical texts the OSI had banned, the journal of M. He also met another inmate, Reginald Chaney. Lem's injuries were so severe that Reginald revealed "He's still eating through a tube, last I heard". Sometime during his stay he savagely beat a fellow inmate named Lem who he would later refer to as a degenerate. Prison allowed him to give into his rage and frustration. Max was later sentenced to a prison on Tartarus for expressing his interest in studying the banned literature with his superiors.ĭuring his time in prison, Max acted as the prison's vicar and joined one of the prison's tossball teams where he played as his team's Fifth-Back. Unknown to him at the time the OSI only banned these books because they could contradict the teachings of Scientism.

the outer worlds the empty man

Max believed the OSI was missing key insight from books on philosophy that they had decided to ban rather than study. Max had trouble fully accepting the answers Scientism provided to explain the universe and mankind's role within it. Because of this he left home against his parents' wishes to join the Order of Scientific Inquiry (OSI) and become a vicar. Max believed that if he studied Scientism enough, he could be happy like his parents. He envied the peace and happiness his parents found in Scientism. Max was born into a working class family in a town he describes as similar to Edgewater.











The outer worlds the empty man