Though he escaped from the Republic and officially left home at the age of ten, Day still remains very close to his family. He doesn't want to hurt other people, and he has a conscience and morals (unlike some other characters in this book). (1.4.83)Įven though he's a legend and a criminal though, Day is still human. He once vandalized the side of a military building. He once torched a whole squadron of fighter jets on an empty airfield in the middle of the night and has on two occasions grounded airships by crippling their engines. He's just a figure that they tell fantastical stories about: He's clever and famous and bold-and no one even knows his real name or what he looks like. The Republic is constantly trying to hunt him down, and the Colonies want to recruit him because he pulls off subversive attacks on the Republic without getting caught. Even at the age of fifteen, Day has become a legendary criminal.
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Haack spent much of the sixties assembling various electronic devices, as well as appearing on talk shows playing the novel eccentric genius to a no doubt befuddled Middle America. In 1954, a tape sent off to the Juilliard School secured a scholarship at the prestigious institution, landing the still wide-eyed Haack in the Big Apple "with a chicken sandwich and sixty dollars". When bigger skies beckoned, he set his sights on the University of Alberta in Edmonton, settling on psychology after being rejected by the Faculty of Music for his poor notating skills. However, in the case of electronics pioneer Bruce Haack, a solitary childhood tucked away in the shadow of the Alberta Rockies merely stoked his knack for invention.Īs a teenager in the village of Rocky Mountain House, Haack tutored locals on the piano and organized sundry country and western bands for their listening pleasure. 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