Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs Discussion Topic Part 1

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Professor: "My dear Mr. Mandus, I admire your vision, I truly do! But surely there are not enough pigs in the whole of London to feed the appetite of such a machine."

Oswald Mandus: "That all rather depends, professor, on what one considers to be a pig."

I think you're confusing the two characters Clearly Mr. Mandus is the crazy one here!

My bet is that Mr. Mandus needs the help of a professional to build the machine. He's a rich industrialist, but not an engineer after all. He therefore asks the professor - an old friend maybe? The "dear" makes it sound like they are quite close - to help him out with his knowledge.

We don't yet know how the professor reacts to Mandus' suggestion of expanding the definition of "pig"... but what we do know is that the machine got built, one way or another. We also know, that Mandus made an expedition to Mexico, after which he was delirious in a fever for several months. During this time, the machine got finished, I guess, OR it was already finished before he departed and his expedition has something to do with it ...running away from what he created maybe?