OHMYGOD!!!!!!!! Rachel got raunchy!
Besides that, there is a lot to take in, in these two chapters. Rick is finally starting to piece everything together and ask for help in the pursuit of the Nexus-6s demise. I still detest Roy Baty, he can die first. The way he manipulates and infects the other androids and J.R. is numbingly grotesque. Rick does finally buy himself a goat, a female Black Nubian! He values it more than anything, I must agree with Ms.Rosen, putting 'Euphemia' first, then Iran, and finally...well, we all know what happens in that hotel room.
I don't exactly know how I want to take that either. I mean, technically, is isn't 'cheating' per-say because, technically, she isn't a real human. The fact of the matter is, however, that he wanted it because he felt attracted to Rachel and she used that knowledge as leverage (and that's highly fascinating/scandalous)
The entire 'fusing' through the Empathy box, with Mercer and the others that have connected to their emotionally dank cube, stirs an unsettled, perturbed anxiety in me in chapter 15. Iran mostly feeds off of these strange, distant ‘feelings’ pretending to derive some sort of enlightened pleasure from it, which then continuously fuels her depressive state of not being able to make herself feel anything. She’s dependant on the box to some extent, hating it all the more. “Apathy, because you’ve lost a sense of worth.” I’m glad that Rick doesn’t like to fuse, but when he does, he realizes that Mercer is simply a ‘mind-control’ “old man climbing a hill to his death.” He then says that he can not learn anything from Mercer and no longer derives any feeling from the box, if anything, annoyance. Tsufi is the worship of spirituality and life in animalistic forms. The life forms here, have been corrupted. So Rachel, (duh-dun-na!) is coming to the ‘rescue’?
16 and 17 get heated! I’m aghast at the concept of, one, an android being intoxicated and two, Rick’s humanity getting the ‘better’ of the advice and experiences he has been given (fickle pickle). Of course Rachel had this little scheme going! She’s an android with no empathy, least we forget. She can not feel the ‘rush’ of emotion a human can, but manipulating it through her extensive psychological studies of both humans and androids alike gives her the step up on Rick. Tricky Tricky! He should have killed her, I think. Once he possessed the emergency safety thingamajig…“bow-chicka-bowowwn!” Oh, and what is with Dick's last line of the chapter in 17: "Her victory over him." I don't think he had any sexist views, but the way that line is delivered hints at womens ulterior motifs, and 'dubious morals'? Why did she really wanna sleep with him in the first place? I dont know if I fully except the story she tells Rick, although I'm sure it's true (what, with Phil Lecsh and the rest)
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