Chaton Jean-Marc wrote:
* Alberto Monteiro [Fri, 08/05/2009 at 14:18 -0200]
Dogs, elephants, and a few other animals are explicitly mentioned
as pre-sapient candidates that Earthclan is forbidden to uplift -
two clients are too much for even an elder galactic race.
Is it my faulting memory, I've read somewhere (Sundiver ??) that humans
tried to uplift dogs but it failed because dogs turned into
contemplation and melancholy. Or my brain is making connexions with some
other work.
Chaton--
I think there was a little fragment of a
parody of the Uplift Books, by David himself,
called "Gorilla my dreams". (Yes, there were
puns.)
This seems to be a link:
http://baens-universe.com/articles/Gorilla_My_Dreams
And here's the quote I remembered:
Next came the habitat of talking neo-dogs, a breed that had been
under modification for centuries, and recently, at long last, had
mastered the deep mystery of door knobs, only to discover that the
devices were being replaced in most homes by galactic technology
psionic clasps. That tragic irony appeared to have broken the
species' collective spirit. Mostly, neo-dogs just lay around
nowadays, whining, licking themselves, and snapping vicious,
Chestertonian insults at the ankles of anyone who unwarily passed
close.
Is this it, or were you thinking of something else?
---David
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