I'm running behind on my usual installments of the Ghost in the Cloud series. Chapter 12 goes back to the original character Randall who created the Ghost in the Cloud when he attempted to up load the consciousness of his friend and partner Dr. Jack Rickerts. The Ghost, Jack, has begun to have inexplicable emotions which he knows full well is not possible given that he has no biological brain or adrenal gland, no limbic system, and no body chemistry at all. How can an entity that has no body feel anything? I have in mind Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein monster whose monster nature was not born out of an attempt to play God by Victor Frankenstein as many misunderstand it, but out of his abandonment of his creature. The Frankenstein story is really a tragic father and son story. Jack the ghost, finds himself wanting something from Randall and is full of feelings he doesn’t understand and cannot account for but possessing an insatiable curiosity, he is compelled to understand them. Chapter 13 continues Angelina's quest to find her father. At the moment she is seeking help from an ancient Druid with Jerry Garcia glasses and a love of Rock 'n Roll.
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