Scene-Setting And A Saint

Poul Anderson, "Margin of Profit" IN Anderson, The Van Rijn Method (Riverdale, NY, December 2009), pp. 135-173.

Scene-setting: 

Solar Spice & Liquors Company office in Djakarta;

guards in the lobby; 

an armed receptionist, probably with a personal fealty clause in her contract; 

a carved Martian sandroot image of St. Dismas on van Rijn's expansive but cluttered desk.

OK. What is sandroot? And it finally occurred to me to check what an image of St. Dismas looks like. Is it just a crucifixion, indistinguishable from the crucifixion of Christ? If you google, you will find images of St. Dismas holding a cross. 

We are back into reading about the Polesotechnic League. To quote the introduction to Trader To The Stars:

"...we are on our way." (p. 556)

Maybe more tomorrow.