(urth) Gene Wolfe is for Exultants

[David Stockhoff]

Ah, but is not their height then another result of technology? Does it 
not help them keep the natives down?

On 12/20/2010 9:22 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
> 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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