This is not a food post except for Bellevuean dogs. However, like Like Chicken, it enhances the sensory realism of the planet, Bellevue. The dogs eat Avocati, which are:
river fish;
bottom-feeding scavengers;
noxious;
flabby;
sucker-mouthed;
making the dogs' breath even ranker than usual.
Unpleasant but as plausible as the marsh-dwelling quasireptiles. The authors have probably imagined a consistent ecology of which they disclose occasional details. The attentive reader should be able to compile a list of native organisms. We have already seen a thongtree and a spersauroid:
rat-killing;
cat-sized;
slinky;
huge-headed;
quadrupedal;
spider-thin legs;
vertically slitted eyes;
scaled.
8 comments:
Paul:
Note particularly the resemblance of the word to "advocate" or, considering the language of the Civil Government, Spanish abogado, both meaning "lawyer." Disgusting bottom-feeders only good for dog food, eh.
Mr. Stirling commented in the preface to one story that he trained as a lawyer and then decided he didn't like that line of work at all.
David,
Indeed.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul and DAVID!
I too had noticed how the "avocati" fish name resembled "advocate."
Sean
I deny everything,.. 8-). Let me add that the lawyer I articled with (an apprenticeship arrangement in Canada) was disbarred. He had -four- disbarment proceedings against him at the same time. I know for a fact he was guilty of insurance fraud, probably arson, and multiple other offenses. Just to give you an idea of the sort of man he was, he liked to employ Jamaican illegal immigrants as servants and then turn them in if they complained about mistreatment.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
And I can see too well how the lawyer you were once apprenticed to could disgust you with the law. He sounds like the kind of man who would gladly work for Chancellor Tzetzas in THE GENERAL books. He made decent and honorable lawyers look bad!
Sean
Arson! Mistreating illegals!
Although at least he wasn'tmobbed up. Several of his friends were; I asked one at a party what working for the mob was like, and he said:
"The money's good and the work is interesting, but you can't quit."
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
I can too easily see how that would be the case!
Sean
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