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yakalskovich) wrote2010-02-03 01:53 pm
yakalskovich) wrote2010-02-03 01:53 pm
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Interesting distinction
Hunting vs. farming, at Seth Godin's blog. I notice that the hunter qualities help a nomadic herdsman as well, which leads this back to the oldest conflict in the book (Cain vs. Abel).
Interesting, nevertheless. Take my main Milli!charries, for example. Teja, despite his berserker qualities, is a farmer. He does things in a very planned and prepared manner, as with the hidden treasure at Cumae. Reliable prescience helps, of course. You have to have that sort of abilities to fold steel, too. Urquhart, on the other hand, is all hunter. He moves from one job to the other, and has the 'long time of seeming lassitude with quiet noticing, followed by short bursts of hectic, hyperfocused activity' down pat. While Teja came to Milliways and went to work in the forge, building himself an afterlife, Urquhart just lassitudes around, enjoys fruit and women, pokes the underbrush, and waits for something to happen.
Which inevitably will.
Interesting, nevertheless. Take my main Milli!charries, for example. Teja, despite his berserker qualities, is a farmer. He does things in a very planned and prepared manner, as with the hidden treasure at Cumae. Reliable prescience helps, of course. You have to have that sort of abilities to fold steel, too. Urquhart, on the other hand, is all hunter. He moves from one job to the other, and has the 'long time of seeming lassitude with quiet noticing, followed by short bursts of hectic, hyperfocused activity' down pat. While Teja came to Milliways and went to work in the forge, building himself an afterlife, Urquhart just lassitudes around, enjoys fruit and women, pokes the underbrush, and waits for something to happen.
Which inevitably will.
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Lajos: Farmer. Works steadily, builds his family's fortune.
Charlotte: Hunter. Lost patience with all her husbands at some stage.
Cindy: Farmer. Can work steadily and productively on her projects.
Marek and Manny: both hunters. Maude: farmer. Only got to be herself again when he hunter husband was gone and had stopped messing up her life. Manny 3 (as you said) is and Marvin was a farmer; the Pest is a hunter.
Ashley: Hunter. The farmer-like aspects of his work make him rather unhappy. Collecting art is the outlet for his hunting self.
Ricky: Hunter. Totally. The epitome of. Parents different from his would probably have doped him with Ritalin as a kid, but he had the right sort of outlet, roaming with Marlene and Tebby through their rural home area.
Sibyl: Farmer. Only farmer types have the patience to painstakingly restore something in such a detailed manner, working or hours and hours, day in day out.
Lewis: Hunter. Now hunting for his former success, which he wants back.
Urquhart: Hunter. Duh. That's where I started out from.
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And now I'm tempted to go through my own characters and see who is what.
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