Universal truth / Single man with a fortune / A wife is needed

[avram]

A note jotted down last night in Sketchbook Minor: What if Jane Austin wrote a samurai story? (I probably meant Austen.) There’s a bit more than that, enough to tie it in to some other long-term free-floating background ideas. Not an actual plot, or characters, but a bit more fertilizer that may cause some to grow, though I fear of a sort I’m ill-equipped to write.

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Re: but, you know

[avram]

Not literally a samurai story, but something that came to me a couple of years back while looking at the Brooklyn Museum's display of Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, reading how Tokyo was full off all these unemployed warriors sitting around looking for work, and I thought about a futuristic setting with lots of super-powered gene-enhanced soliders during a time of peace, trying to scrape together enough money to buy license keys to unlock the copy-protection RNA on their genomes so they can start families.

Re: but, you know

[(Anonymous)]

That *does* sound like Jane Austen! importance of marriage for women = buying a license key. social rules and etiquette very important.

Anita Rowland (http://www.anitarowland.com/)