All Men Dream of Earthwomen, Noetic File 17.0 Rector of Earth
All Men Dream of Earthwomen, Noetic File 17.0 Rector of Earth, is now posted.
Noetic File 17.0: Rector of Earth
The Narrator reveals his identity, and Amphitricia reveals her loyalties.
The figure of the Rector does not seem to be based on any real historical personage, but may be an amalgam of several famous scholars of the period, human and otherwise, including Gilvaethwy, Boustrophedon the Elder, Corbé de la Brume, and Julien Benda, author of Belphégor as well as Treason of the Clerks. Several of the sharp criticisms of the intellectual life of pre-invigilation Earth are here repeated as ironic affirmations.