Kate Davenport
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Random questions. I know sorcerers avoid each other but do saints of the Bastard ever get together and talk shop? I’m sure saints of the Mother and the Father must. Which made me wonder, what would the focus of a saint of the Son or the Daughter be?
Lois McMaster Bujold
I'm sure saints would talk shop, and exchange other mission-critical information, the same as any other professionals. Also to get to complain about their exalted jobs to someone else who understood. Saints are pretty thin on the ground, especially the specialized saints of the Bastard, but local ones would know or know about each other, certainly. (Which leads inevitably to fanficcy musing on what modern communications tools would do to that, heh. Temple websites?)
We did meet one all-but-saint of the Son in the ill-fated shaman Scuolla, for a pointer. Male comradeship, protection, rescue, hunting... there are certainly possibilities.
Saints of the Daughter are an open question. (Well, there was Cazaril, who was certainly one for a time.) Virginity, early childhood education, lyric poetry, temple guards, and spring flowers are rather a grab bag of attributes; there may be more yet to be devised/explored.
Ta, L.
I'm sure saints would talk shop, and exchange other mission-critical information, the same as any other professionals. Also to get to complain about their exalted jobs to someone else who understood. Saints are pretty thin on the ground, especially the specialized saints of the Bastard, but local ones would know or know about each other, certainly. (Which leads inevitably to fanficcy musing on what modern communications tools would do to that, heh. Temple websites?)
We did meet one all-but-saint of the Son in the ill-fated shaman Scuolla, for a pointer. Male comradeship, protection, rescue, hunting... there are certainly possibilities.
Saints of the Daughter are an open question. (Well, there was Cazaril, who was certainly one for a time.) Virginity, early childhood education, lyric poetry, temple guards, and spring flowers are rather a grab bag of attributes; there may be more yet to be devised/explored.
Ta, L.
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As you've gotten older, wiser, and perhaps a more capable writer, do you look back on things you wrote early in your career and wish you could change them? I once saw an interview with Spielberg about Close Encounters of the Third Kind. He talks about how he could never have had Richard Dreyfus' character go off on the space and leave his children behind, if he'd made the movie after he became a father. Thanks.
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Is Aral's middle name Selig, making it actually little Selig's middle name? If so, what is his first name? Or is it Grandpa Sasha's middle name? Or did they not go with tradition? I know it's certainly a name in Vorkosigan history. You use a lot of British idioms in the V books - is that to give them a certain "not from around here" flavor, or just phrases you yourself use, or?
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