JDG wrote: > >The suaveness gap is emphasized when Maia notes that Renna is intentionally >misspeeling messages to try and keep Maia's mind sharp and her spirits up. > The message "at 16 you ought to be happy. such a rotten shame" (p.260) is obviously from an Earthling; BTW, how did Renna convert Maia's age to Earth Years? Also, "My family made clocks, but I haven't seen them in a while. Seem to have lost track of time" (p.262) is obviously an exageration - Renna knew the time, probably the *exact* time. Could he have somehow used the Life Set to give him calendar date and time?
> >When Lamai clones are younger, they all seem to go through a set of >"crushes" determined by the genes of the Clan founder, starting with older >clone-sisters, moving to clones in allied families, and finally a >particularly intense period of "crushing" on a member of a rival clone >family just before reaching adulthood. The last experience seems to be >particularly devastating for Lamais, causing them to forswear >"hearth-relationships", giving them a bit of sterness in their character, >and causing them to seek sexual fulfillment only from men and prostitutes. > And there's a typographical error here: p.260: Lamai spend their 5th year winter bound with a Trevor or Wheatley p.261: then, *sixers* bound with a Yort-Wong then, there follows an Autumn of discontent then, there's a ceremony of passage, explicitly said (p.185) to include "the six-year-old class of Lamais" Or did I misunderstood something, and these six-year-old Lamais are actually almost seven year old? [which would make them about 21 Earth Years old] > >Notes: >-Venturist? Venture? - a clan of radical activists (pg 265) > Not a clan, it's more like a Radical political party. My question: the escape from the prison cell happens at an "early winter evening". What does it mean? An earty (winter evening) or an (early winter) evening? According to my computations, the time is *not* early winter, but almost mid-winter - and Chapter 12 takes almost a full Earth Year. Alberto Monteiro
