(urth) Gene Wolfe is for Exultants

[Jeff Wilson]

On 12/20/2010 6:24 AM, David Stockhoff wrote:
> That's right---especially the second paragraph---and it's a theme in
> BOTNS, where the oppressive effects of this type of rule are clearly
> seen throughout the Commonwealth, and where the aristocracy are local
> colonial elites supported by alien technology. Typhon did the same with
> these technologies when he had them.

Interesting - I'm not as sure as you seem to be that the Exultants are 
just Urthlings writ large, but mentioning them in conjunction with 
Typhon, who mentioned his slaves of larger sizes makes me think they are 
connected.  This might explain why Exultant height is variously 
inherited and the result of a therapy - they're result of different 
experimental methods to set his favored servants litesrally above the 
common masses.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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