> Who live underground and thus report on things that humans find
> tedious and uninteresting. Who also have severe problems in
> comprehending human society. They could overcome these limitations
> but this entails apostacy.
My proposal was pretty theoretical, of course, and, sure, I could see there would be problems trying to understand them. That's the key - we would have to understand them, not necessarily the other way around. If we could somehow figure out what the right questions to ask were, and how to interpret the answers...
> Have you ever seen a technicial report when the writer has screwed up
> badly and is trying to cover his or her arse?
All the time :-(
> Some mostali are like that.
That I find surprising in any non-apostate dwarves/mostali. I had interpreted these guys as not having much personality of their own, with no _pride_ as such to speak of. I thought they would be primarily (solely) motivated to "getting it right", rather than "looking good doing it"
> Why would a Rock Mostali know about the Spike?
>From a minerology POV.
> He wasn't made then and he does not have a pressing need or even a
> desire to know anything about the spike. Some probably can't even
> understand the question.
I saw them more as scientists, rather than sort of grunty rock bashers (I mean if you're striving for 2000% in something, it's got to be pretty sophisticated).
Fixing the world machine for a rock dwarf I imagined was all about finding perfect materials, which would mean you'd get involved in studying previous perfect materials.
> The Dwarfs see _everything_ in terms of the World Machine. The humans
> have inferior sensory apparatus and so are incapable of seeing the
> manifest details.
Agreed. But why aren't they as busy above ground as below?
And what about moon, sun, stars? Are they planning any Apollo missions to go and fix whatever's gone wrong up there? They must at least have telescopes, musn't they?
Richard
Richard Develyn (http://www.skaro.demon.co.uk)
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