Cornelius
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Cornelius is a prominent member of the Tracklayer's Union and the leader of the Prehistoricist movement within the Union.
The Scientist-Philosopher
"If we aren't meant for track laying, what is our place? And before you say 'farming mushrooms,' I'd disagree with that as well. As a matter of fact– ... "Revolution is our place. Think about it. ... We're the ones that look at the world and see how it should be and how it's falling short, and we go to work shouting on street corners, or writing angry novels, or packing gunpowder into casing. Different methods. But the soul is always seeking and striving."[1]
Cornelius is a scholar who has extensively studied both the Great Chain of Being and the Correspondence,[2][3] and founded the Prehistoricist ideology based on his findings.[4]
Cornelius and Furnace
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"He unwinds the bandage around his head. His face is covered with tiny mouths, none of them bigger than an eye. When his first mouth is silent, the other mouths speak, or grimace. All these mouths give him a strange cadence; he speaks with one voice and another, like verses of poetry."[5]
During the building of the Moloch Line, the original railway between London and Hell, Cornelius co-led the Tracklayer's Union alongside Furnace Ancona.[6] The construction of the line went well until the workers reached the Hurlers.[7] A deviless sought to sabotage Cornelius,[8] teasing him about not being able to read an inscription written in the Discordance, and smuggled him a dictionary. When Cornelius read the inscription, it wounded him grievously enough to send him to the Slow Boat[3] and gave him many extra mouths, each with its own voice and opinion.[9]
Disgraced and disfigured, Cornelius spent six months in The Tomb-Colonies.[10][11] After his return, he began to preach his philosophy in the Tracklayer's union headquarters at the Magistracy of the Evenlode,[12] and started planning his next move...[13]
References
- ↑ Ask about his goals, Fallen London
- ↑ Ask about what she found at Hurlers, Fallen London
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ask how she first learned about stones like the one you just left, Fallen London
- ↑ Ask her about the Prehistoricists (Furnace), Fallen London
- ↑ Speaking with Cornelius, Fallen London
- ↑ Ask about those stones out in the frozen patch of Neath, Fallen London
- ↑ Ask about those stones out in the frozen patch of Neath, Fallen London
- ↑ Ask questions about the history between Furnace and the Devils, Fallen London
- ↑ Hear him out 2, Fallen London
- ↑ Persuade Cornelius, the Bandaged Prehistoricist, Fallen London ’"I find him dry, and I've just spent six months in the Tomb Colonies."'
- ↑ Speaking with Cornelius, Fallen London
- ↑ Ask the local opinion of Furnace Ancona, Fallen London
- ↑ Plans for the Neath, Fallen London
