Charles Liu
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Podcast Appearances
They're a little too violent.
They're a little too many of them.
You have to take care of them.
You have to like control them.
But then you have to figure out why those monsters went out of control.
And in almost all cases, it's because somebody who is not one of those monsters tried to do something unwise and lost control.
Yes, very much so.
And also what Carl did in that book was to make very clear the difference between a scientific and a non-scientific monster.
Right.
Something that you could actually touch and feel and confirm and explain as opposed to an experiment.
That's right.
Do you remember in that book, the parable of the dragon in my garage?
Tell me real quick.
The idea is that I tell you I have a dragon in my garage.
And so you say, oh, let me see it.
It's like, oh, no, it's invisible.
Like, well, okay, so I might be able to hear it, right?
Oh, no, it's completely quiet.
It's like, oh, well, it flies, right?
So I can hear wind.