Hanno, in one of his public identities, brings Tu Shan and Asagoa to the US where they farm and foster troubled children, thus hearing of the Unity, a movement among the poor run by a black woman called Mamo-Lo who is the daughter or maybe the granddaughter of the first Mama-Lo... Meanwhile, Mamo-Lo and her associate investigate an advertisement for LONGEVITY STUDIES...
At long last, the immortals are starting to come together just as I am about to call it a night.
Asagoa speaks those immortal words:
"'Times have changed.'" (4, p. 392)
Immortals must be more sensitive than mortals to even the slightest of changes. Many mortals lived from birth to old age and death within the lifetime of a single monarch, whether Queen Victoria or Elizabeth II, yet unprecedented social changes also occurred during those decades. The immortals assembled will agree on action in anticipation of the next major world-wide changes. We will see them again in an indefinite future which is what all of sf points us towards.
Good night.
8 comments:
Note that you'd need instant communications and mass media to get to this situation.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
And those immortals would need to be willing to "get together," and at least one was not.
Ad astra! Sean
The immortals were all born in situations where some things were constants -- that most people spent their lives growing food, for example. That was inescapable... until it wasn't.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
And they also spent the first four or five decades of their lives not suspecting their life spans would be so unusually different from those of everybody else.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean: yup. They only slowly came to terms with their agelessness.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
The ones smart enough to figure out ways of surviving. Some, as might have happened to Rufus, blundered their way to early deaths.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean: yes. You'd have to move by middle age, or people would begin to strongly suspect.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
Otherwise such an immortal would very likely end up being burned alive as a witch!
Ad astra! Sean
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