home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!pmafire!mica.inel.gov!ux1!news.byu.edu!eff!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!uwvax!cs.wisc.edu!lewandow
- From: lewandow@floss.cs.wisc.edu (Gary Lewandowski [TSoD])
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.xbooks
- Subject: Re: Quicksilver Question
- Message-ID: <lewandow.721846056@cs.wisc.edu>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 16:47:36 GMT
- References: <97689@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.wisc.edu (The News)
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: GaTEA, Slug Division
- Lines: 29
-
- In <97689@netnews.upenn.edu> fhuang@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (EL FUMON) writes:
-
-
- > So if Quicksilver of X-Factor possesses superhuman speed, how is verbal
- >communication between him and others possible? Let me explain what I'm
- >trying to ask. You see, other's speech would seem like 45's played at
- >33 speed while his own speech would seem like it was being played at 78
- >speed. What gives?
-
- I think this sort of thing is exactly what Peter David has been trying
- to play with in X-Factor. It seems that the reason Pietro can
- communicate with people is that he waits for them, and has worked to
- talk slow enough. For him, it's horribly boring, and stupid people
- can be really irritating. (Imagine you can already figure out what
- stupid thing someone is going to say, and then you have to stand
- there for a looooong time waiting for them to say it. That's
- Quicksilver.)
-
- Of all the characters in X-factor, this characterization of Quicksilver
- most attracts me to the book. Imagine being so fast that your whole
- perception of the world is fundamentally different than everyone
- around you. What a lonely time.
-
- --
- Gary Lewandowski gary@cs.wisc.edu Theory Slug of Doom
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math,
- that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.
- -- Kurt Vonnegut, _Hocus Pocus_
-