[LMB] TSK: Beguilement Re-read -- Questions for Chapter 3

[Tzivia Adler]

> For the fantasy lovers , science fiction lovers on the list, what do you 
> think so far?
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i'm going to rephrase that question to sut me better:

soneone once quipped that
'in a fantasy, society wants to build a better magic spell.
in science fic, society wants to build a better device.'

lakewalkers build magic - dag's brother the maker is too valuable to waste 
as a patroller, even though it takes ten camp folk to support a patroller. 
and how many campers does it take to support a maker?  does anyone calculate 
it like that?

farmers are ramping up the technology - a farmer-artificer (sp?) designed 
dag's arm harness, although i expect that after all these years of repair he 
(or his patrol mate w/2  hands) could re-build it himself.  farmers designed 
fancier looms, glass knicknacks, and bricks.  et cetera.

how well does the cutting edge tech of the farmers hold up agsinst the 
(black) sorcery of hte lakewalkers?
where would you rather live?
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maybe these questions could be reserved for later in the book:
 given that teh cultures are apparetnly kept firmly apart by marriage 
tabbos, how much cultural exchange can there be?

given that patrolers claim to have 'planted' the farmers only after much 
debate, and
given that the twins and other farmers want to expand without consulting the 
lakewalkers at all,
how long before (1) the farmers start to belive whole-heartedly in blight 
bogles and start inventing tech to kill them, only to find that nothing 
works
(2) then fight the lakewalkers for not warning them and/or not protecting 
htem well enough.  it isn't unheard of, after all, for the villeage 
wise-woman to heal all the kids and hten be burnt as a witch for not saving 
the mayor's daughter.

ziviya, speculating
// chapters in a good book are like potato chips:  bet you can't eat just 
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