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<blockquote data-quote="briggart" data-source="post: 9130362" data-attributes="member: 6805135"><p>I can't be sure, that's just my personal interpretation, but I do believe there are several times when we are shown that the assassination is the first place his mind goes.</p><p></p><p>To be clear, I agree with your assessment of his basic character, but I think it was the assassination that really pushed him over the edge. Without that I believe his response would have been more measured and reasoned, but now he's become paranoid which makes him less rational and more impulsive.</p><p></p><p>He subjects Dawn and Dusk to memory <s>edits</s> audits, and secretly changes the law so that he will be the only one who can authorize a memory edit of an Empire (well Demerzel still can, but he doesn't know). He gets mad with Sareth in his bedchamber, because he believes she is planning another assassination attempt. There are also subtler hints, e.g., when Sareth's informer requests the memory edits from the attempt, the archivist complains something like "again? he's being going through them over and over again".</p><p></p><p>But the most telling moment was probably when Bel Rios speaks with Day just after his first encounter with Hober Mallow. Bel Rios reports that the Foundation has jump technology that far surpasses imperial one, that they are trying to convince the Spacer to betray the Empire, which likely means they are preparing for war. And after hearing all this, what does Day do? He turns to Demerzel to ask "could they have sent the assassins?" and then leaves without giving Bel Rios any instruction. And again in the vault, the first thing Day asks Seldon when he finally meets him is "did you send the assassins?". </p><p></p><p>The aura thing also ties into the assassination. At the beginning, Day is enjoying his fighting with the assassins, he thinks his aura will protect him. He explicitly tell them so. And then his aura fails, and he realizes that he really is in danger. And again, when Hober Mallow jumps into Trantor, Day aura fails and he almost gets killed by Beckie. He is totally in panic there.</p><p></p><p>He doesn't feel that just his/the Empire status is being threatened, he feels personally, physically in danger.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="briggart, post: 9130362, member: 6805135"] I can't be sure, that's just my personal interpretation, but I do believe there are several times when we are shown that the assassination is the first place his mind goes. To be clear, I agree with your assessment of his basic character, but I think it was the assassination that really pushed him over the edge. Without that I believe his response would have been more measured and reasoned, but now he's become paranoid which makes him less rational and more impulsive. He subjects Dawn and Dusk to memory [S]edits[/S] audits, and secretly changes the law so that he will be the only one who can authorize a memory edit of an Empire (well Demerzel still can, but he doesn't know). He gets mad with Sareth in his bedchamber, because he believes she is planning another assassination attempt. There are also subtler hints, e.g., when Sareth's informer requests the memory edits from the attempt, the archivist complains something like "again? he's being going through them over and over again". But the most telling moment was probably when Bel Rios speaks with Day just after his first encounter with Hober Mallow. Bel Rios reports that the Foundation has jump technology that far surpasses imperial one, that they are trying to convince the Spacer to betray the Empire, which likely means they are preparing for war. And after hearing all this, what does Day do? He turns to Demerzel to ask "could they have sent the assassins?" and then leaves without giving Bel Rios any instruction. And again in the vault, the first thing Day asks Seldon when he finally meets him is "did you send the assassins?". The aura thing also ties into the assassination. At the beginning, Day is enjoying his fighting with the assassins, he thinks his aura will protect him. He explicitly tell them so. And then his aura fails, and he realizes that he really is in danger. And again, when Hober Mallow jumps into Trantor, Day aura fails and he almost gets killed by Beckie. He is totally in panic there. He doesn't feel that just his/the Empire status is being threatened, he feels personally, physically in danger. [/QUOTE]
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