I'm currently 260 pages into this book and I'm enjoying every moment of it!
I have one simple question. Pyat claims in the book to have practically invented nearly all of the inventions and concepts of the 20th century and beyond (from the Airplane and Air Bomber to the Washing Machine, TV and the Laser Ray), is this the fictional Munchausian ramblings of Pyat who in his books tries to lay claim to being the greatest technological thinker of the early 20th century? Are we supposed to simply say 'this man simply desires to be something he is not' or praise his foreknowledge? In a way, even though Pyat and his exploits are fictional, is there a fiction within the fiction which portrays a Pyat who has created a web of lies in order to better himself in his own eyes and the eyes of other, like a young braggart of a man who will claim down the pub that he has bedded a large ammount of woman while in fact- a girl won't even touch him. Are we meant to take Pyat's exploits with a grain of salt in that what we see may only be the lies of a rather pathetic man or read the man as a genius who was doomed to see his ideas created by other people?
I have one simple question. Pyat claims in the book to have practically invented nearly all of the inventions and concepts of the 20th century and beyond (from the Airplane and Air Bomber to the Washing Machine, TV and the Laser Ray), is this the fictional Munchausian ramblings of Pyat who in his books tries to lay claim to being the greatest technological thinker of the early 20th century? Are we supposed to simply say 'this man simply desires to be something he is not' or praise his foreknowledge? In a way, even though Pyat and his exploits are fictional, is there a fiction within the fiction which portrays a Pyat who has created a web of lies in order to better himself in his own eyes and the eyes of other, like a young braggart of a man who will claim down the pub that he has bedded a large ammount of woman while in fact- a girl won't even touch him. Are we meant to take Pyat's exploits with a grain of salt in that what we see may only be the lies of a rather pathetic man or read the man as a genius who was doomed to see his ideas created by other people?
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