Thursday, October 2, 2008

Blogpost 1

"That's bad."
"Not necessarily. All is taken into account."
"But is that why I am being investigated?"
"Yes. Everything about my project is being investigated."
"Are you in danger, sir?"
"Oh, yes. There is a probability of 1.7% that I will be executed, but of course that will not stop he project. We have taken that into account as well. Well, never mind. You will meet me I suppose at the University tomorrow?"
"I will," said Gaal.
[Asimov 19]

The two characters in this excerpt of a conversation are Gaal, and Seldon. This passage shows the character, Seldon, is either very inteligent, or over confident of himself. Seldon is shown to expect that he will survive the investigation, statisticly at least, and that he has overlooked nothing of consequence.