Talk:Auditors of Reality

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Thinking back to reading in UFO lore, (as well as having the Blue Öyster Cult's live LP Some Enchanted Evening playing in the background while I write), I'm reminded that after a particularly egregious UFO sighting, the Men In Black usually turn up to hush things up and tell witnesses to keep schtum.

The MiB attract attention for their generally unworldly approach, clumsiness and unfamiliarity with things of this world, and the fact they will go to any conversational lengths to avoid use of the word "I", as if the first person singular is wholly alien to them.

It has also been noted that they invariably come in threes, and one witness at least noticed that at any one time, two of them seem to be there to keep an eye on the third - also noting that it was as if something totally alien had been given control of a human body for the first time and was unfamiliar with the nuances and fine details.

Could these be Roundworld's version of the Auditors?

--AgProv 13:02, 10 July 2007 (CEST)

The Discworld MIB are surely the History Monks, the're even refered to as the Men in Saffron.

--Attercop 06:35, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

After discovering the Edgar Cayce quote, it also occurs that on his symbolic journey from Hell to Heaven, he also passes through Roundworld's metaphysical version of the Dungeon Dimensions: a place full of grossly mis-shapen, malformed, parodies of living things. Interesting, though not the sort of thought to dwell on just before bedtime. --AgProv 22:21, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

the quote

I've read bits of Cayce's work, and the passage in question seems to me to refer to humanoid beings clad entirely in grey robes, while the Auditors are consistently described as being robes without the person. In that context, is this quote really relevant? Doctor Whiteface 01:46, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Philosophical question

Are the Auditors opposed to entropy as change, or do they support it as the means to perfect gray (or Eau-de-Nil) uniformity. Would this question cause them to explode? --Old Dickens (talk) 16:10, 14 May 2016 (UTC)