That proposed thousand year excursion here is not as far fetched as it sounds because Kenri Shaun is already eight hundred years old in Earth time, having made several voyages each amounting to decades or centuries in duration. Kith Town is designed to endure with robotic supervision for centuries whereas no Terrestrial regime lasts that long and the Dominancy was already in decline. See combox here.
I am posting in a brief interval between the Green Fair and the Indian Evening mentioned in recent posts and therefore have not yet got to grips with the economic conflict between the Kith and the Dominancy (see "Ghetto"). However, it takes as long as it takes. I will be back with you all some time later tomorrow or the day after.
A motto that might suit time-dilated space travelers: Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after.
6 comments:
Paul:
Creed of the Procrastinator: Why put off 'til tomorrow what you'll never do anyway?
Kaor, DAVID and Paul!
David: Ha, ha!!! Amusingly put. I fear I too can sometimes be a procrastinator!
Paul: If you are part of a club focused on Indian culture, do you ever discuss the works of Rudyard Kipling? Many of his best known stories, such as KIM, are set in India.
Sean
Sean,
I am not really part of such a club, though. I attend a Zen group. Zen comes from Japan although Buddhism came from India. But, in that group, our only literary references are to Buddhist scriptures.
Paul.
Sean,
Oh, you meant the "Indian Evening." As a fund raiser, a friend wore a sari, played Indian music and served curries with a lot of help from her Indian lodger.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
Both comments were of interest to me. I had been wondering what you meant by "Indian Evening."
Indian cuisine? Unsurprisingly, we see a lot of that in Stirling's THE PESHAWAR LANCERS. I recall as well a visiting Frenchman thinking that while liked much of what he ate in the Angrezi Raj, it was pleasant to again eat French style while at the French Embassy.
Sean
Sean,
I commented on that somewhere.
Paul.
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