From: Lewis Jardine (jardine@rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk)
Date: Fri 13 Dec 1996 - 12:35:57 EET
>
> WRT Peter Metcalfe's comments on my, not very serious, article on
how to become a Dwarf.
>
> Me: > All this discussion of joining one of the elder races has started me
> >thinking on what it would take to become a Dwarf or Clay Mostali.
>
> I don't think this is possible as _yet_.
I disagree (very slightly) I don't think it has been done yet.
> In Slon, the Eleventh humans are trying to be accepted as Mostali but
> the Dwarves don't encourage them.
Being asked to tend the same machine for a few hundred years is
definitely
not very encouraging.
> I certainly don't think humans can become Clay Dwarves although
> they may follow one of the paths in an attempt to achive Diamondhood.
I agree with this generally, but I wonder whether over the centuries a
human might slowly develop towards a Clay Dwarf. Assuming he lasted
that long...
> However following such a path does not confer them immortality unlike
> the clay mostali.
I agree totally here.
> So the odds of surviving 700 years are slim methinks.
Quite, that was the point of my article.
Cheers
Lewis
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