--- Isidora Zamora <isidora@...> wrote:
> >Well, I mean there's no laws protecting Daine
> >in
> >general. According to human law, they're
> >soulless animals.
>
> Which would account for the horrible treatment
> that they are subjected to.
Yep. And unlike (I suppose!) the Cwendaso and
Trehelish, a Daine could never pass for a Man.
> Because the Cwendaso refuse to cremate their
> dead, some Trehels are tempted
> to wonder if they don't have souls, because
> anyone with a soul would
> obviously want to free the soul after death by
> cremating the body. One of
> my important characters, Shohon (or Jostei) is:
> Cwendaso to all physical
> appearances; one half Cwendaso, one quarter
> Trehelish, and one quarter
> Nidirino by blood; and mostly Cwendaso but
> partially Trehelish by
> culture. At one point, some men were talking
> and rather embarrassingly
> forgot that he was listening. Rather
> embarrassingly, because one of them
> wondered aloud whether Cwendaso had souls.
> Shohon responded, "I'm
> one-quarter Trehelish, so, what does that mean
> - I have one-quarter of a
> soul?" They weren't willing to say that he had
> only part of a soul, so
> that sort of settled the issue of whether
> Cwendaso had souls or not.
:) Settled in which direction?
> And over two-thirds of the population would
> have a good deal of difficulty
> with the release form, since they are
> illiterate :)
Hah! Can they just make an X?
> Actually, there is a high degree of literacy in
> the military because they
> are also a police force, and that requires, you
> guessed it, paperwork. The
> literacy rate in the military may be 100%, or
> it may be that they will
> accept illiterate men as soldiers, but only
> those who can read and write
> can be made officers, even low-ranking ones.
I'm sure officers both in the Guard and Army need
to be literate, but I doubt the common soldiery
need be any more than functional.
> (And daughters are educated to the same degree
> that sons are. The wife of a wealthy man is
> supposed to be able to do more
> than just look pretty and be socially adept;
> part of being socially adept
> is being able to discuss philosophy with your
> guests.
That sort of situation would be familiar to human
women in most of the countries around.
> Printers not only make
> books, they are also in the habit of reading
> books in their spare time, so
> that many of them end up self-educated;
There are no printed books in the World. If you
have a book, some monk or slave spent a while
copying it out for you.
> >Feathered, yes. Attached at the back on the
> >scapulas. Mostly they're used to communicate,
> >like how we gesticulate. Of course, they just
> >have two extra bits to point and wave with!
>
> How fun!
Reuires a little more space than just arms and
hands, though!
> >I guess they figure a) it's a waste of the
> >drugs
> >on a Daine and b) the subject is going to die
> >anyway. If not on the table then in the
> >rubbish bin.
>
> I would think that it would be worth wasting
> some drugs not to have to do a
> vivisection on a screaming and struggling
> subject.
That's what the beadles are there for. Plus,
there's straps and things. And I guess you could
always cosh em a little.
> We have a
> very good book called _Drawing_With_Children_
> by Mona Brookes, but I
> haven't used it yet. I should. I'd learn to
> draw, too.
I've heard of that one. It's good from what I
understand.
> In this particular case, a tourniquette wasn't
> applied in time, and the
> patient had lost so much blood by the time that
> he reached the physician
> that the physician decided that it was safer to
> do an amputation than to
> try to control bleeding while he put a lot of
> bone splinters back in place,
> with no certainty that the repair would even go
> well enough that the leg
> could ever be used again. Unfortunate.
Shame.
Padraic.
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