Very Jorge Luis Borges! I like it. Could also be be weird GL experiments into randomness/(social) mobility too. I don't know much about the East, but it could maybe be an exotic local political process too.
> Oh wait.
>
> A leftover Zistorite machine. A prayer-wheel computer of some kind. It
> assesses the needs of the community and assigns the adults coming up
> accordingly, while also assessing their magic. No one dares question
> whether it is broken - or admits its probable origins.
"The ruby had trembled, the tourmaline failed, the diamond passed unssuported. Thus, a woman was born doomed."
Now it sounds more Cordwainer Smith... :)
-- John Machin "Nothing is more beautiful than to know the All." - Athanasius Kircher, 'The Great Art of Knowledge'.
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