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The "facilities"; How does Bren use them?
Topic Started: Feb 7 2016, 03:29 PM (1,094 Views)
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The earlier books talk about the psychological effects too, how atevi at first encounters, even after 200 years, they find it difficult to take humans, like Bren, seriously. In some way, humans look either dwarfed or child-like to them.


I fully confess to a gleeful laugh the first time Cajeiri's POV appeared in the novels just because my brain automatically connected Ilisidi's ear-oriented discipline to that smack across the ear Banichi gave Bren in the first novel after he'd drunk the tea ... it was, to me, an aha! that 'nichi-ji had, just for a moment, dropped from his usual professional control into instinctive parenting mode with his charge (quite understandable ... IMO the atevi equivalent of a human parent reaching the "you're going to be okay I'm going to kill you for doing that" stage) ;-)
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But that of course puts a whole other spin on the bit with Tillington in the most recent book. 9 year olds arguing in a strange language, but not?
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Comparative Fecology.
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Archaeologists study ancient societies also by looking at their fossilized feces and bathroom habits. Tells you a lot about socialization and social structure. Science fiction often acts as a sort of thought experiment about future/alien/alternative societies, but for some reason, consistently leaves out this crucial issue of bodily-waste disposal. I appreciate :cherryh: for being one of the very few to even mention the issue.
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Archaeologists study ancient societies also by looking at their fossilized feces and bathroom habits. Tells you a lot about socialization and social structure. Science fiction often acts as a sort of thought experiment about future/alien/alternative societies, but for some reason, consistently leaves out this crucial issue of bodily-waste disposal. I appreciate :cherryh: for being one of the very few to even mention the issue.

I believe this is how they disproved the theory that slave labor built the Great Pyramids.

Slaves Didn't Build the Great Pyramids
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joekc6nlx,Feb 15 2016
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I believe this is how they disproved the theory that slave labor built the Great Pyramids.

Slaves Didn't Build the Great Pyramids

Fascinating article, but I do not recall reading anything about poop in it. Lots of meat and bread, but no poop. No boobies either, for that matter.
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BetYeager,Feb 15 2016
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joekc6nlx,Feb 15 2016
06:16 AM
I believe this is how they disproved the theory that slave labor built the Great Pyramids.

Slaves Didn't Build the Great Pyramids

Fascinating article, but I do not recall reading anything about poop in it. Lots of meat and bread, but no poop. No boobies either, for that matter.

Sorry, it's been over a year since I read the article myself.....

(You know memory is the third thing that goes.....)
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On the other hand, human waste fossils have been used to prove cannibalism:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v407/...l/407074a0.html
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