What I want is to run and hope it falls away
The majority of my day so far has been emotionally and physically excruciating, but I want to appreciate ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
spatch for listening to me speculate this morning on the subject of whether Voyager's Doctor is Jewish. Obviously the question itself presumes some biographical facts on the part of his creator-template, but I feel the odds are better than not in the case of an AI designer named Lewis Zimmerman who does most of his communicating via sarcasm: "Congratulations. The first trans-galactic phone call." So how does patrilineal descent work when it's photons? Fortunately, since I do not have the space in my life to explore the argument seriously, I am confident the answer is covered by either golem minhag or the same kind of fannishness that runs with the halachah of descent from Magneto. I did check rabbinical opinions on the Jewishness of robots and was entertained that professional-type people also think of Star Trek and whether a golem counts in a minyan. Personally I think that in the era of Zoom shivas and services, a sentient hologram would at least know how to dial in on time. Did this train of thought cross my mind in time to exploit it for Purimgifts? Nope. But it's one of the few things I did with my brain today that didn't make me miserable. And a package from minoanmiss arrived for my niece, who I will be seeing tomorrow. And that's really nice.
spatch for listening to me speculate this morning on the subject of whether Voyager's Doctor is Jewish. Obviously the question itself presumes some biographical facts on the part of his creator-template, but I feel the odds are better than not in the case of an AI designer named Lewis Zimmerman who does most of his communicating via sarcasm: "Congratulations. The first trans-galactic phone call." So how does patrilineal descent work when it's photons? Fortunately, since I do not have the space in my life to explore the argument seriously, I am confident the answer is covered by either golem minhag or the same kind of fannishness that runs with the halachah of descent from Magneto. I did check rabbinical opinions on the Jewishness of robots and was entertained that professional-type people also think of Star Trek and whether a golem counts in a minyan. Personally I think that in the era of Zoom shivas and services, a sentient hologram would at least know how to dial in on time. Did this train of thought cross my mind in time to exploit it for Purimgifts? Nope. But it's one of the few things I did with my brain today that didn't make me miserable. And a package from minoanmiss arrived for my niece, who I will be seeing tomorrow. And that's really nice.
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To be relevant:
I have the same image and I thought it was yours. It was not Beagle unless it's somewhere in A Fine and Private Place that I missed. Maybe it really, really wants to be written out into the world and we should cautiously attempt it.
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Anyway, _Silence Fallen_, the Mercy Thompson series, 2017.
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A couple of short stories according to her bibliography, but nothing that I recall by name. Just to be clear, are we talking about golems or dybbuks here?
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*hugs*
It was not Beagle unless it's somewhere in A Fine and Private Place that I missed.
Not that I recall. The ghosts in that one are conspicuously goyish. And it's not in any of his three collections for Tachyon Press and A Dance for Emilia is a cat.
Maybe it really, really wants to be written out into the world and we should cautiously attempt it.
If we accidentally plagiarize someone from the '30's, it will be thematically appropriate!