1.2.4-Primeideal

ClubNinetyThree 1.2.4: Tormentum Belli
So, this chapter is apparently the origin of the phrase “loose cannon.”

”It is matter set free; one might say, this eternal slave was avenging itself;” Lots of personifications of the cannon. I guess part of the idea is that even completely inanimate instruments are reflections of the time and the society that built them. The most recent cause of this disaster is the gun captain messing up, but more broadly, this is a consequence of being out on the ocean with an enormous weapon of death in tow. Live by the enormous cannon with a “sinister life”; die by the cannon, you might say. We don’t get a name for the gun captain or the dudes who were just killed off—this isn’t necessarily about them, specifically, at this point. But it might be about this era and its technologies.