{"id":282,"date":"2009-09-19T21:22:38","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T01:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/?p=282"},"modified":"2009-09-20T13:03:28","modified_gmt":"2009-09-20T17:03:28","slug":"you-betta-recognize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/archives\/282","title":{"rendered":"You Betta’ Recognize."},"content":{"rendered":"

Memory and senses alert you to the familiar. You “recognize” something when you have had previous experience of knowledge with a thing or a situation. In an unfamiliar situation, you know, such as a comet destroying half of the world, recognizing familiar people and situations could be a key to survival. The word “recognize” appears in Lucifer’s Hammer<\/em> fourteen times. If you want to get passive, “recognized” appears twenty-four times.\u00a0 They all appear in the context you would think, and they mostly pertain to people.<\/p>\n

Out of the thirty-eight ways this term is used, my favorite would probably be “Then a worse thought: I could be recognized. As the man who invented the Hammer…<\/em>” (235).\u00a0 Obviously this is Tim thinking this right after the impact and the immediate aftermath.\u00a0 Tim realizes that if he is recognized some sort of panicked riot could ensue and he would be suffering a more personal disaster. This is why he disguised himself as a reporter, etc., until he was rescued.\u00a0 He recognized that he needed to make himself unrecognizable.\u00a0 Anyways, it might have sounded a little more compelling in my head.<\/p>\n

Speaking of recognizing things from past experiences, Harvey Randall was able to identify that the Brotherhood was using mortars to attack the Stronghold (580).\u00a0 Not that it’s particularly useful knowledge in present every day life, but at least he was able to put a finger on exactly how they were being attacked.\u00a0 I would imagine this, what could be considered, useless skill turned out to be something relatively valuable in this new kind of living situation.\u00a0 He had enough sense to recognize what was going on and led a few people to temporary safety (as far as I know).<\/p>\n

I mean, I guess this is kind of a weird word to pick. But I think without recognition (which only shows up ONE time, btw.) some of our favorite characters from this ripping adventure\/disaster novel wouldn’t have some of the advantages that they have used for protection.\u00a0 It’s better to recognize a threat to your life than not, right? I guess the more the characters knew about the world around them pre-hammer, the more they are able to recognize patterns, things and behaviors post-hammer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Memory and senses alert you to the familiar. You “recognize” something when you have had previous experience of knowledge with a thing or a situation. In an unfamiliar situation, you know, such as a comet destroying half of the world, recognizing familiar people and situations could be a key to survival. The word “recognize” appears… Continue reading You Betta’ Recognize.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}