[UA] Archetype evolution

[Michael Daisey]

S. Ben Melhuish wrote:
> 
> So I get my copy of UA and start reading it.  Tasty, indeed.  I may even
> play this game one day soon, rather than put it on my shelf to collect
> dust with the other games I own (other than Ars Magica).
> 
> As often happens when I'm exposed to a work of intense creativity, my
> own muse starts talking to me.  For no apparent reason, I think about
> D.B. Cooper.  (For those who don't know about him, he's a bit of a
> legend, an anti-hero, around the Northwest.  I don't remember the details
> of the story -- perhaps someone can correct or elaborate -- but in the
> early '70s, he hijacked a plane, somehow ended up with a suitcase or two
> full of cash, and parachuted out.  The only trace of him that has been
> found was a handful of the money that he stole, washed up on the banks
> of the Columbia River.)
> 
> Well, it's obvious that he ascended at some point in his parachute
> descent.  (Note the drastic rise in airline hijackings since -- a
> resonance of his ascension.  Nice, too, that his metaphysical ascension
> was triggered by a physical descent.)  This gets me thinking, however.
> 
> What archetype did he become?  

	Given that he parachuted out of a _jet_, and it is widely
	believed that this act of stupidity killed him, perhaps
	he ascended to be the Moron, or the Ill-Informed Thug,
	or the Dumbass.

	He's certainly famous enough, for no good reason, that
	some occult explanation would be fun.  Still, he has such
	a high profile that I would probably opt for a red herring
	explanation...maybe there is someone in the Seattle 
	Underground who encourages the rumor that he is D.B. Cooper,
	or goes by that name.


-- 
Michael Daisey
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"It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the
oath." Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek dramatist. Fragments, no. 385.