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Boardman Mephi is an influential figure at a university called Taemosan. But despite his important position, he is secretly a member of the Union, which opposes the ruling corpocratic government. He keeps a close watch over Sonmi~451, saving her after Boom-Sook Kim nearly kills her during a drunken game and helping her to feed her own curiosity about the world. He introduces Sonmi to Hae-Joo Im, who seems to be a normal grad student but is actually a fellow member of the Union. When enforcers raid campus looking for Sonmi, Mephi reportedly gets killed, although since Sonmi has a theory that the Union was actually working with the corpocracy, the true nature of Mephi’s fate and his motives remains ambiguous.
Boardman Mephi Quotes in Cloud Atlas
The Cloud Atlas quotes below are all either spoken by Boardman Mephi or refer to Boardman Mephi. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 5
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Catechism Three teaches that for servers to keep anything denies Papa Song’s love for us and cheats His Investment. I wondered, did Yoona~939 still observe any Catechism? But misgivings, though grave, were soon lost in the treasures Yoona showed me there: a box of unpaired earrings, beads, tiaras. The xquisite sensation of dressing in pureblood clothes overcame my fear of being discovered. Greatest of all, however, was a book, a picture book.
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Chapter 7
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We see a game beyond the endgame. I refer to my Declarations, Archivist. Media has flooded Nea So Copros with my Catechisms. Every schoolchild in corpocracy knows my twelve “blasphemies” now.
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Boardman Mephi Quotes in Cloud Atlas
The Cloud Atlas quotes below are all either spoken by Boardman Mephi or refer to Boardman Mephi. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 5
Quotes
Catechism Three teaches that for servers to keep anything denies Papa Song’s love for us and cheats His Investment. I wondered, did Yoona~939 still observe any Catechism? But misgivings, though grave, were soon lost in the treasures Yoona showed me there: a box of unpaired earrings, beads, tiaras. The xquisite sensation of dressing in pureblood clothes overcame my fear of being discovered. Greatest of all, however, was a book, a picture book.
Related Characters:
Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 7
Quotes
We see a game beyond the endgame. I refer to my Declarations, Archivist. Media has flooded Nea So Copros with my Catechisms. Every schoolchild in corpocracy knows my twelve “blasphemies” now.
