Have you ever seen any quotes or stories that can be applied to Harmonia? A while back I read a quote by the Nobel Peace prize winner, Elie Wiesel who said, “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.” This makes a ton of sense in the context of Harmonia. As I wrote before, Harmonia is about love. It juxtaposes the phiroids’ love with the humans’ indifference. In chapter six, the humans are described as seeing the Phiroids as if they were only rocks on the road. It isn’t so much that they hate Phiroids, they just don’t acknowledge them as anything more than metal.
I don’t know if anyone else notices the specific rhetoric used but I really like stuff like the metaphor of Phiroids as rocks. The story also described humans as moving “with a mechanical sort of precision” and I think that parallel to how robots are usually described is really cool.
