The Lathe of Heaven (pg. 34-53)
The anti-hero of the Lathe of Heaven
George Orr
Died by antidote
Beatrice from Rappaccini’s Daughter
She dies because she has been so thoroughly altered by her father that the antidote kills her instead of curing her
She embodies a fatal poison
Descendent of a convicted women at the Salem Witch Trials
Who is Ray Bradbury?
She was later exonerated
The brilliant scientist that saved a well-known and loved actress from death
Who is Maltzer?
Won the Twitter category in the inaugural Author Blog Award
Who is Neil Gaiman?
The facility Dr. Haber is in charge of...
HURAD: Human Utility: Research and Development, the vital core of the World Planning Center, the place where the great decisions were made
The 19th Century view on femininity shown in Rappaccini’s Daughter
Women are weak; susceptible to evil but not capable of evil
Beatrice’s motives are pure, her vitality is real
The first humanoid-genre mini-ircuited, rechargeable AC-DC Mark V Electrical Grandmother
Who is Nefertiti?
A literal electrical grandma
Egyptian for The Beautiful One is Here—a symbol of both mortality and immortality.
The first recorded human prosthetic
A big toe, constructed in Ancient Egypt for a noblewoman so that she could wear sandals again
Born to an English father and Chinese mother
Who is Sarah Howe
The alien owner of a kitchen equipment shop and Orr’s employer
E’nememen Asfah
Served in the Ninth Indiana Infantry Regiment and Buell’s Army of the Ohio
Who is Ambrose Bierce?
Italian word for shadow puppets
Fantoccini (father’s definition)
The three components that share a relationship in “Snow”
Memory, mortality, machinery
The poem gently reminds the reader that a parent must act as well as observe
What is “ The Mushroom Hunters”
For humanity to survive, people must observe, experience, remember, and formulate. Science is not the provenance of men alone.
The women-gatherers, the mushroom hunters of the title, are as vital and important to the survival of humanity as were their male counterparts and were as much hunters as any men might have been
The Lathe of Heaven’s seven integral themes
1) shifting versions of reality;
2) philosophical viewpoints, particularly Taoism and utilitarianism;
3) the relationship between humanity and technology;
4) the enduring problem of warfare;
5) issues of racism, immigration, and xenophobia;
6) the power of friendship and love; and
7) the pitfalls to patterns of dominance and control.
The expression of Moxon’s murderer after his death
One of satisfaction
The implication of the scene is that the automaton had become conscious of and angered by Moxon’s manipulation of its circumstances—Moxon’s machine wanted out from being under Moxon’s domination.
Disabled the enemy organization squad attacking Barbara by knocking all four of them unconscious
Who is Jordan?
17 year old adolescent
The nano technology on the basis of physics utilized by the Wasp
The Brownian Movement
The recordings are as random as the movement of molecules
Ironically the poem begins in darkness
What is Relatively?
This poem about the theory of relativity and the speed of light begins in darkness—“When we wake up brushed by panic in the dark.”
The Lathe of Heaven considers the potential of deadly or disabling diseases, one of which is called kwashiorkor. What is it?
A form of malnutrition caused by a lack of protein and insufficient nutrients in one’s diet.
The phrase that initiated the murdering of Moxon
“ Checkmate”
The mysterious disease in Childfinder
The disease of being human
The short-lived community of psis succumbed to an internal and ultimately fatal conflict that resulted in the extinction of the whole community
The character seen as an abstraction
Who is Diedre?
A well-loved, famous, and uniquely beautiful stage and screen singer-actress
The world mourned for her after hearing her death
Died by a theater fire and had human brain transplanted into a mechanical body
Maltzer worries about most, though, is that Deirdre is no longer female, no longer a woman, unsexed
The poem that starts with “ my little one”
What is The Mushroom Hunters
The poetic voice then proceeds to recount the earliest days of humankind, when humans were once understood as hunter-gatherers, the hunters being men, the gatherers, women. In the hunter-gatherer myth, men made all the tools and technology while the women gathered food