"'I see a lot of funny doings and high living - wasteful, shameless - amongst the Clansfolk, 'specially the youngsters. Not like it used to be.'" (p. 92)
This has been said throughout history, no doubt.
Usman, a local Muslim entrepreneur, once told me that the younger generation do not have the same attitude. I replied that I was sixty-four (at the time) and that people had been saying that since I was four. However, I think that I did him an injustice. His generation had come to Britain, set up businesses and established themselves. The following generation, born and growing up here, were bound to have a different attitude.
Meanwhile, fiction reflects life. Things change also in the Maurai History. Many people are restless as:
"Change blew in on the winds from the sea, the winds in the sails of foreign ships." (ibid.)
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Kaor, Paul!
And that increasing sense of restlessness would make more and more people impatient with the Maurai restraints on developing and using new technology!
Ad astra! Sean
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