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July 13, 2005

The Eschatologist: Mad Scientist For Sale

"Excuse me? It's a what?"

"A Eureka engine."

"Well then. So what the hell is a Eureka engine?"

"It's very simple, actually. You know the concept of the positive feedback loop, right? And mob theory? This works in much the same way. It takes those two ideas and for scientists, alchemists, and thaumaturges like ourselves, will biologically amplify the emotion associated with invention - the epiphany moment - and feed it back into itself to where the output is a higher order multiplier of the original breakthrough. There are, however, certain...side effects."

"Such as?"

"It's an insufferable bastard. All ego."

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