First Exodus theory revised

James Wynn · 14 Feb 2011, 16:50 · from 2011-February.txt.gz

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 10:50:37 -0600
Subject: (urth) First Exodus theory revised
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=ZPKT_hRgk__nRSxZOzhonF+C-NUa3pMXEScU- at mail.gmail.com>
References: <AANLkTi=ZPKT_hRgk__nRSxZOzhonF+C-NUa3pMXEScU- at mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4D595D5D.5080904 at gmail.com>

On 2/14/2011 10:41 AM, Andrew Mason wrote:
> I don't think we do - but is there a reason to think it was different
> from Silk's time? If Pas had meant the chems to be slaves, why would
> that have changed?

The increasing scarcity of chems would conceivably cause this. Just as, 
when the Black Death depleted the population of Europe, it doomed 
feudalism since the serfs (slaves) gained the upper hand.
It does not appear that chems were recognized as People during Typhon's 
time, based on statements by Kypris.

> By the way, what do people make of Sard, the pawnbroker? I believe
> 'sard' can mean a fish, but the most common meaning, which Wolfe must
> have been aware of, is a gem. Is this a chem running his own business?
> I don't think anything that's said actually rules this out - we are
> only told that_most_  civilian chems are servants.

Most chems work in manual labor because that is what they were designed 
to do. Bios take advantage of that. But, among male chems who do not 
serve a soldiers, they are not apparently employed primarily as domestic 
servants--as female chems seem to have. Some work in fields. It is 
possible that Sard was programmed for some sort of clerical use that 
mapped to being a pawnbroker.

u+16b9

An unofficial mirror of a public mailing list · about & removal requests · download the archive · before the list · original archive at urth.net