the great debate

[jwgh]

[Poll #925685]

Defend your position in the comments!

(Tik-Tok's a robot, obviously. But what happens if he's sprinkled with the Powder of Life?)

Important Breaking News: Project Gutenberg has 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' available for free onliine, which allowed me to find this possibly relevant excerpt:

"Oh, I see," said the Tin Woodman. "But, after all, brains are not the best things in the world."
"Have you any?" inquired the Scarecrow.
"No, my head is quite empty," answered the Woodman. "But once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart."

Comments

[jwgh]

I'm still curious as to what would happen if Tik-Tok got the Powder of Life sprinkled on him. I guess the best case scenario is that he would no longer need to get would up. Maybe he would get emotions too. But he was always happy to not be alive, so it seems like it would be a cruel experiment to perform.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I imagined a sort of possession/zombie scenario--Tik-Tok would suddenly be subject to two warring personae: that animated by his clockwork mechanisms, and a spirit of the living substance of his body endowed by the Powder of Life. The motions induced by the latter would strip his gears, and the original Tik-Tok would die horribly, his nonfunctioning corpse animated by the usurper in Gumplike fashion...