Pg. 147- “I know aliens are supposed to be all mysterious and everything, but I still don’t see why anyone would build a city-sized wildlife refuge for anaerobic microbes”
-Isaac Szpindel
I would have to say that from the second I read this page; this was the most compelling sentence that stuck to me the whole time. There was another passage later on talking about certain visual imagery and/or aspects of the Rorschach, but this laid the groundwork for the later sections. This sentence is talking about the unknown about how the minds of an extraterrestrial being would exceed that of a human. In the earlier sections of the book Siri attempted to break down the communications in human terms by explaining the functions of a “Chinese room”, but it did something unexpected and it was again attempted to be disproved by human reasoning. The sentence is most important and compelling because it keeps the human-like counterpart crew members in the dark when they try to examine unknown by human means, when there is obviously a much more meaningful sense in the view of what built Rorschach; a concept that is carried out throughout a good portion of the section. Even Sarasti, the vampire could be defined by human means because generally used to be human. The sentence is also interesting because it foreshadows the curiosity of exploring something that could be a death-trap that sounds too much like a cliché decision when understanding through human aspects fails that shortly follows after the sentence.
