Roderick/Book Two - Revision history

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Eb: /* the Bow-wow Symphony */

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the Bow-wow Symphony

Eb: use template

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Eb: /* Summary */ collapse summary

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Summary: collapse summary

Eb: /* a young man Ben thought he recognized, until he saw him full-face (without a birthmark) */

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a young man Ben thought he recognized, until he saw him full-face (without a birthmark)

Eb: /* How can they program a robot to obey some dumb law */

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How can they program a robot to obey some dumb law

Eb: /* Saint Peter shut us out */

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Saint Peter shut us out

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Summary

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	This was originally published as Book Two of ''[[Roderick]]'', and is also Book Two of the combined edition ''The Complete Roderick''.		This was originally published as Book Two of ''[[Roderick]]'', and is also Book Two of the combined edition ''The Complete Roderick''.

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 === The Queen of Spain was adopted by fairies ===
-I'm not sure if this is what Ma is talking about, but there is a Spanish ballad—called "La Infantina" by at least one author<ref>[http://blogs.bl.uk/european/2014/11/are-you-afraid-of-the-fairies.html "Are you afraid of the fairies? You should be"], Olga Kerziouk (2014)</ref>, and listed as "A cazar va el caballero" in the collection ''El Romancero Castellano''<ref>[https://archive.org/details/romancerocastel02timogoog ''El Romancero Castellano''], volume II, ed. G.B. Depping (1844)</ref>—in which the daughter of the King of Castille is taken away by fairies for seven years (not exactly adopted, but imprisoned on a mountain). Ma might be conflating this story with the real Infanta {{wp|Isabella I of Castile}}, who was brought up by other members of the royal family after her father's death.
+I'm not sure if this is what Ma is talking about, but there is a Spanish ballad—called "La Infantina" by at least one author<ref>{{cite article|author=Taylor, Barry|date=2014|url=http://blogs.bl.uk/european/2014/11/are-you-afraid-of-the-fairies.html|title=Are you afraid of the fairies? You should be|publication=British Library: European Studies Blog}}</ref>, and listed as "A cazar va el caballero" in the collection ''El Romancero Castellano''<ref>[https://archive.org/details/romancerocastel02timogoog ''El Romancero Castellano''], volume II, ed. G.B. Depping (1844)</ref>—in which the daughter of the King of Castille is taken away by fairies for seven years (not exactly adopted, but imprisoned on a mountain). Ma might be conflating this story with the real Infanta {{wp|Isabella I of Castile}}, who was brought up by other members of the royal family after her father's death.
 == Chapter IV ==
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 === Ramon Llull .... he made up all these wheels ===
-"The radical innovation Llull introduced in the realm of logic is ... the construction and the use of a machine made of paper to combine elements of thinking, i.e. elements of language. With the help of connected geometrical figures ... Llull tried to produce all the possible declarations of which the human mind could think."<ref>[http://history-computer.com/Dreamers/Llull.html "Ramon Llull"], Georgi Dalakov, on [http://history-computer.com ''History of Computers'']</ref> (Follow the link for illustrations of Llull's wheels.)
+"The radical innovation Llull introduced in the realm of logic is ... the construction and the use of a machine made of paper to combine elements of thinking, i.e. elements of language. With the help of connected geometrical figures ... Llull tried to produce all the possible declarations of which the human mind could think."<ref>{{cite article|author=Dalakov, Georgi|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170706021817/http://history-computer.com/Dreamers/Llull.html|title=Ramon Llull|publication=History of Computers|accessed=July 6, 2017}}</ref> (Follow the link for illustrations of Llull's wheels.)
 === ''Malleus Maleficarum'' ===

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 [[wikipedia:Rex Reason|Movie and TV actor]] best known for ''This Island Earth''. By the time of this novel he had already been retired for nearly 20 years; as far as I can tell, it's never explained why he was special to Ma or Pa.
 [[Category:Roderick]]
 == Chapter XIII ==

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 This was originally published as Book Two of ''[[Roderick]]'', and is also Book Two of the combined edition ''The Complete Roderick''.
-== Summary ==
+{{SummaryCollapsed |
-<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">Allbright has sent Roderick to live with Hank and Indica Dinks, who mostly ignore him and leave him to learn about human behavior from TV. When the Dinks' marriage breaks up, Hank goes berserk; Roderick defends himself and, thinking he has killed Hank, mails himself to the home of Ma and Pa Wood (whose address was provided by Dan Sonnenschein—their foster son). These kindly eccentrics try to bring him up as their own child and send him to school, where the teachers and administrators assume he is a boy with unusual physical disabilities even though he has no human parts. During his "childhood" Roderick is kidnapped repeatedly, goes on the road with drifters and grifters, and works as a carnival fortune-teller for the shady businessman Mr. Kratt (who later coincidentally hires the former Roderick researcher Ben Franklin and the spy Mr. O'Smith). He graduates from his child-sized "toy tank" body to an adult-sized, mostly humanoid body created by the Woods. Allbright, briefly cleaned up but not any nicer, reveals that Dan is now in a mental hospital. Back in Minnetonka, the Campus Ripper is unmasked and goes on the lam. Meanwhile, Indica has become the leader of a "Machine Liberation" movement, while Hank has joined an opposing anti-machine group. A coalition of Hank's followers, various disgruntled townspeople, and racists (since Roderick painted his head black in mourning when he thought Pa Wood was dead), storm Kratt's factory and attempt to lynch Roderick; fortunately, they wrongly assume he's dead after his head comes off. The Orinoco Institute continues to look for him without success. Roderick finally hits the road alone, hoping to track down Dan.</div>
+Allbright has sent Roderick to live with Hank and Indica Dinks, who mostly ignore him and leave him to learn about human behavior from TV. When the Dinks' marriage breaks up, Hank goes berserk; Roderick defends himself and, thinking he has killed Hank, mails himself to the home of Ma and Pa Wood (whose address was provided by Dan Sonnenschein—their foster son). These kindly eccentrics try to bring him up as their own child and send him to school, where the teachers and administrators assume he is a boy with unusual physical disabilities even though he has no human parts. During his "childhood" Roderick is kidnapped repeatedly, goes on the road with drifters and grifters, and works as a carnival fortune-teller for the shady businessman Mr. Kratt (who later coincidentally hires the former Roderick researcher Ben Franklin and the spy Mr. O'Smith). He graduates from his child-sized "toy tank" body to an adult-sized, mostly humanoid body created by the Woods. Allbright, briefly cleaned up but not any nicer, reveals that Dan is now in a mental hospital. Back in Minnetonka, the Campus Ripper is unmasked and goes on the lam. Meanwhile, Indica has become the leader of a "Machine Liberation" movement, while Hank has joined an opposing anti-machine group. A coalition of Hank's followers, various disgruntled townspeople, and racists (since Roderick painted his head black in mourning when he thought Pa Wood was dead), storm Kratt's factory and attempt to lynch Roderick; fortunately, they wrongly assume he's dead after his head comes off. The Orinoco Institute continues to look for him without success. Roderick finally hits the road alone, hoping to track down Dan.
 == Chapter I ==

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 == Summary ==
-Allbright has sent Roderick to live with Hank and Indica Dinks, who mostly ignore him and leave him to learn about human behavior from TV. When the Dinks' marriage breaks up, Hank goes berserk; Roderick defends himself and, thinking he has killed Hank, mails himself to the home of Ma and Pa Wood (whose address was provided by Dan Sonnenschein—their foster son). These kindly eccentrics try to bring him up as their own child and send him to school, where the teachers and administrators assume he is a boy with unusual physical disabilities even though he has no human parts. During his "childhood" Roderick is kidnapped repeatedly, goes on the road with drifters and grifters, and works as a carnival fortune-teller for the shady businessman Mr. Kratt (who later coincidentally hires the former Roderick researcher Ben Franklin and the spy Mr. O'Smith). He graduates from his child-sized "toy tank" body to an adult-sized, mostly humanoid body created by the Woods. Allbright, briefly cleaned up but not any nicer, reveals that Dan is now in a mental hospital. Back in Minnetonka, the Campus Ripper is unmasked and goes on the lam. Meanwhile, Indica has become the leader of a "Machine Liberation" movement, while Hank has joined an opposing anti-machine group. A coalition of Hank's followers, various disgruntled townspeople, and racists (since Roderick painted his head black in mourning when he thought Pa Wood was dead), storm Kratt's factory and attempt to lynch Roderick; fortunately, they wrongly assume he's dead after his head comes off. The Orinoco Institute continues to look for him without success. Roderick finally hits the road alone, hoping to track down Dan.
+<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">Allbright has sent Roderick to live with Hank and Indica Dinks, who mostly ignore him and leave him to learn about human behavior from TV. When the Dinks' marriage breaks up, Hank goes berserk; Roderick defends himself and, thinking he has killed Hank, mails himself to the home of Ma and Pa Wood (whose address was provided by Dan Sonnenschein—their foster son). These kindly eccentrics try to bring him up as their own child and send him to school, where the teachers and administrators assume he is a boy with unusual physical disabilities even though he has no human parts. During his "childhood" Roderick is kidnapped repeatedly, goes on the road with drifters and grifters, and works as a carnival fortune-teller for the shady businessman Mr. Kratt (who later coincidentally hires the former Roderick researcher Ben Franklin and the spy Mr. O'Smith). He graduates from his child-sized "toy tank" body to an adult-sized, mostly humanoid body created by the Woods. Allbright, briefly cleaned up but not any nicer, reveals that Dan is now in a mental hospital. Back in Minnetonka, the Campus Ripper is unmasked and goes on the lam. Meanwhile, Indica has become the leader of a "Machine Liberation" movement, while Hank has joined an opposing anti-machine group. A coalition of Hank's followers, various disgruntled townspeople, and racists (since Roderick painted his head black in mourning when he thought Pa Wood was dead), storm Kratt's factory and attempt to lynch Roderick; fortunately, they wrongly assume he's dead after his head comes off. The Orinoco Institute continues to look for him without success. Roderick finally hits the road alone, hoping to track down Dan.</div>
 == Chapter I ==

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 === a young man Ben thought he recognized, until he saw him full-face (without a birthmark) ===
-Ben has once again come close to Roderick without knowing it. He thinks Roderick looks familiar because Roderick now looks like [[Roderick/Book Two#Lyle Danton? Is it you?|Lyle Tate]], who was commissioned by Ma Wood to design Roderick's new head. Ben and Lyle have never appeared together in the book, but presumably Ben saw him around the Minnetonka campus and remembered him because of the birthmark. Roderick's resemblance to Lyle will become a plot point in [[Roderick/Part 2|Part 2]].
+Ben has once again come close to Roderick without knowing it. He thinks Roderick looks familiar because Roderick now looks like [[Roderick/Book Two#Lyle Danton? Is it you?|Lyle Tate]], who was commissioned by Ma Wood to design Roderick's new head; Ben and Lyle have never appeared together in the book, but presumably Ben saw him around the Minnetonka campus and remembered him because of the birthmark. Roderick's resemblance to Lyle will become a plot point in [[Roderick/Part 2|Part 2]].
 === the Shah was a puppet ===

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 === How can they program a robot to obey some dumb law ===
-Roderick's basic objection to Asimov's {{wp|Three Laws of Robotics}} is addressed from a different, much darker angle in Sladek's later novel ''Tik-Tok''. Roderick, despite not being programmed with any rules other than a desire to learn and make sense of things, is basically a nice guy; the title character in ''Tik-Tok'', once he realizes that there's no way his ethical "asimov circuits" could really work as described, becomes a murderous sociopath (and takes advantage of other robots who still believe in the Three Laws by using loopholes much like the ones Roderick thought of, such as misleading them about who is or isn't a human being).
+Roderick's basic objection to Asimov's {{wp|Three Laws of Robotics}} is addressed from a different, much darker angle in Sladek's later novel ''[[Tik-Tok]]''. Roderick, despite not being programmed with any rules other than a desire to learn and make sense of things, is basically a nice guy; the title character in ''Tik-Tok'', once he realizes that there's no way his ethical "asimov circuits" could really work as described, becomes a murderous sociopath (and takes advantage of other robots who still believe in the Three Laws by using loopholes much like the ones Roderick thought of, such as misleading them about who is or isn't a human being).
 === the first real bionic man wasn't even scratched in that plane crash ===

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 === Saint Peter shut us out ===
-Father O'Bride's complaints about the school's athletic rivals are all jokes about the saints and martyrs the rival schools are named after:
+Father O'Bride's complaints about the school's athletic rivals are all jokes about the saints and martyrs the other schools are named after:
 * {{wp|Saint Peter}} is said to be in charge of the gates of heaven
 * "we spanked Saint Theresa": {{wp|Teresa of Ávila}} wrote about her religious visions using what some might consider kinky imagery ("so surpassing was the sweetness of this excessive pain, that I could not wish to be rid of it")