athena_analysis.html

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athena_analysis.html
Source: webcrawl
Date: 2031/03/13
Area: A2

athena_analysis.html is a text document stored in terminal A02 in A2.

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[USER ALEX16 ADDED 4 NOTES]

NOTE 01: &/ novel's first sentence - "She woke up in an impossible place, knowing nothing." - signifies more than the beginning of another amnesia-based mystery, though we should not go so far as to read the entire work as allegory. Rather, while taking the science fictional novus at the core of the narrative at face value, we should ////%10///</p>

NOTE 02: having no inherent knowledge of the nature of the world, forced to rely on what we are told by others and what our own (subjective, flawed, limited) senses tell us 54 72 75 74 68 20 77 61 73 20 74 68 65 20 6F 6E 6C 79 20 64 61 75 67 68 74 65 72 20 6F 66 20 54 69 6D 65 2E social reality (belief) and objective reality (matter) come into conflict.

NOTE 03: When, in chapter sixteen ("A Second Awakening in the Kingdom of Artemis"), the protagonist questions her mentor on the ///

NOTE 04: a more meaningful interpretation can only be achieved through SYNTHESIS of

Notes

  • The translated hex string is an old proverb, likely quoting Leonardo da Vinci from a passage on truth from his notebooks. From the 2008 Oxford University Press translation and compilation of his works:

    Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold. Truth in the end cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is useless, Dissimulation is frustrated before so great a judge.
    Falsehood puts on a mask.
    Nothing is hidden under the sun.
    Fire is put for truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for falsehood and lying, the concealer of truth.

    Truth was the only daughter of Time.