Talk:Excession
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[edit] Not Sure?
I'm not sure that the Excession can really be called a Big Dumb Object. After all, it takes a number of very obvious actions in response to its environment, is eventually revealed to be at least sentient, and indeed has a brief role as narrator. In that short interlude its place in a much broader picture is exposed in a deliberately tantalising manner.
Let's not also forget that the Excession communicates with some of the surrounding Minds; they mention exchanging greetings with it at least once.
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well it's fairly dumb, since it doesn't know about capital letters and punctuation according to the epilogue. How about a "Big semi-literate object"? ehh.. seriously I agree, my addition contradicts the Big Dumb Object idea. Uther Dhoul 20:25, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
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to call the most powerful technological entity in the Culture Universa a 'Big Dumb Object', is, well, dumb! 80.229.162.156 11:17, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
