by this rationale, we can only assume each time that this is what datu said. I don't buy the imperfect narrator theory(see below for that). so datu's experience during the attack is different after the attack. perhaps hearing what was said, just translated after the fact. (like that time in high school pre Spanish class when I ate at a place called "el aseo")
I don't buy the imperfect narrator theory. to think that some aspects of the story we cannot rely on the person telling us the story to accurately tell us what happened is completely infuriating. if kc came forward and said something like "certain scenes are not entirely accurate because x,y, and z...plus Kelly screwed up and put some datu info into one of Riley's entries"...yea, I'd be done here. theres already a cornucopia of information here...so much so that we are LOST as to whats gonna happen next. I get the occasional thing like the angel line when lizzy was being kicked out, and the recent Kelly ad-lib on michaels entry. I can even overlook the fact that scratch has several parts that could not be "journalized" (at least not yet). but the idea that we cannot at least 95% rely on the info in the entries? nope...no sir, no way.
refresh my memory, when have saul or Tanya been in a situation where they would have the chance to hear a smart one/inkling (not including bill)....speak. not being a dick, genuinely asking. I cant think of one.
personally I picture the scene at the end of "Hannibal" with bill feeding the boyfriend parts of his own brain.
which brings me back to that.
perhaps he poked around with their inferior frontal cortex, looking for what sort of reaction he could get within the broca's area of the brain. sure, the job was messy...and they all were gonna die anyways. but what if from that he gleamed what the reaction to change that could take place during z day and how to best deal with it(his tattoos)? think of it this way, as a child learning new words and new symbols is a wonderful experience. the human mind as it develops is constantly seeking new imput. children constantly question things(any parents on here are familiar with the word "WHY?") now, imagine all your language skills are completely eradicated...but all this new info starts bombarding you. things you generally had overlooked, everyday symbols, unidentifiable markings, laguages that before you could not understand...now they seem to make sense.
to me, despite the gross-ness of the w/a zombies (ya know, eating people, smelling like poo, etc) I think this would be a crazy awesome experience. sort of like taking a whole slew of people from all the countries of the world and throwing them into one place. letting them figure out how to communicate with each other and learn to live together...hmm...wait, this sounds familiar....
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