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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.