* David Hobby [Thu, 28/05/2009 at 20:38 -0400] > 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
Exactly, it's it ! Thanks -- Jean-Marc Chaton _______________________________________________ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
