thread: 2008-01-09 : Mr foot, welcome to mouthville
On 2008-01-09, Vincent wrote:
Probably. The social sense you're talking about is the one about a person's power vs an institution's?
In the Dying Earth, there are all these preposterous institutions and social hierarchies, and the people who benefit from them feel really, really entitled to them. But nobody's enforcing them but the benefactors themselves, and they're often totally inept to do so. Fortunately for them (until Cugel comes along), the people oppressed by the institutions are just as inept.
Cugel, while still vastly inept, is slightly less inept than they are, and that's all it takes to overthrow them. Vance's sense of humor delights me.
Is that what you were asking about?
