[UA] Re: UA digest, Vol 1 #777 - 22 msgs

[Peter Hindman]

   The Remarkable Vessel of Decanting and Commentary (Mr. Teapot) says:

> I prefer the idea of a clockworker who spent all his memories on
> something _huge_.  He wakes up with total amnesia, including not
> remembering what he was building (perhaps he was working with someone
> else as well, who promised to clue him in afterward, bu instead ran
> off).  After spending time discovering who he is and what's going on
> with the building mechanical oddities, he discovers the probably
> reason for his lost memories.  Then it's off to figure out what he was
> building, why, and where it's run off to (with various other groups
> out to destroy/capture/study/whatever it as well).

  That pretty much describes the plot of a series of Henry Kuttner short
stories, such as 'The Proud Robot'.  The protagonist, Gallagher, is a
brilliant inventor--when he's drunk.  Unfortunately, he also has
blackouts, and spends most of his time trying to figure out what his
inventions are supposed to do.  Hilarity ensues.  I think there are
probably a lot of wacky Mechanomancer (and/or Dipsomancer) plots waiting
to be stolent from Kuttner's stories.


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