In a message dated 3/10/2006 5:34:09 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I know that I'm just begging for "To get to Galaxy Four" kind of answers, but I'm at the Jijo appendix of the GURPS Uplift book, and while I can recall the other sooners' reasons for going into hiding, the Hoons' reason escapes me. I'm not really inclined to pore over some 1,000 pages to figure it out when I can instead indulge that most excellent of Deadly Sins, Sloth, and ask you guys instead! :) Jim There is no exact answer, only the legend of realizing that they have felling for a lost childhood. An undergrount movement of romanticists? A hoonish SCA? I did suggest to Dr. Brin the following story idea as to the very first spark that set the movement off: The Hoon are a very practical race, and in being very practical, husband and wife have their two allotted children one right after another for the efficiency of getting the job done in the soonest possible time. Lest disturbing to normal business practices, and the two siblings can probably learn simultaneously from the same educational instructors. But there are always exceptions. An ambasadorial duty for the male combined with an illness for the female to result in a rarity of the daughter having a baby brother s full twelve years younger than she was. Then the mother dies and the daughter winds up having to take care of her brother. Which she discovers..........to enjoy. She rarely spends time with teens her own age, gets poor marks in her schooling, and actually starts to take up some of the mannerisms of a child that are normally discarded along with a hoon's first spine. The father becomes concerned. Father to daughter: Why can't you behave more like an adult? You're messing with your future. Daughter to father: Why can't you behave more like a child? You're missing out on life. --------------- Merely an urbane legend until the good Dr. Brin says it is so. William Taylor --------------------- Good words on page I do forebare Not pulled out from my derriere. Blest be the man who says, "writes well" And curst be he who makes me spell. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
