tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9661811.post8806519995944076053..comments2024-02-18T12:18:45.788-05:00Comments on Sun and Shield: Musing about Gene WolfeMartin LaBarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14629053725732957599noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9661811.post-23747790293309910292007-01-18T16:51:00.000-05:002007-01-18T16:51:00.000-05:00Thanks, elliot! My impression of the exultants agr...Thanks, elliot! My impression of the exultants agrees with yours.Martin LaBarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14629053725732957599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9661811.post-10479713161323445212007-01-18T12:17:00.000-05:002007-01-18T12:17:00.000-05:00Good post!
The exultants, from what I can tell, a...Good post!<br /><br />The exultants, from what I can tell, are the high aristocracy, who've interbred over the years and may have become taller from that or some initial genetic engineering. Wolfe also uses this idea in his story Silhouette - high-class women in a famished world were given extra food coupons, so their children would be taller and have an aura of command. Apparently these distinctions become very obvious in highly stratified class-based societies. I've heard that when the troops were mustered for the Great War in England, there were regiments from poor areas in which the men were 5 feet tall on average, while their upper-class officers were much taller.Elliothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08144417439505262113noreply@blogger.com