Video Games · 2011
We're made up of thousands of parts with thousands of functions all working in tandem to keep us alive. Yet if only one part of our imperfect machine fails, life fails. It makes one realize how fragile, how flawed we are.
— Ingun Black-Briar • The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Ingun considers the body as a system whose many interdependent parts make it vulnerable. Her clinical interest gives the observation an unsettling edge. The line concerns physical fragility rather than a claim that people are only machines.
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