tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3235431266233602422.post1660861995130912299..comments2024-02-27T03:15:13.798-08:00Comments on Silver Goggles: Mummies & Gail Carriger's Parasol ProtectorateJhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16985629384463009968noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3235431266233602422.post-1518942952121330742011-06-24T09:17:52.558-07:002011-06-24T09:17:52.558-07:00Interesting - I read this post just after reading ...Interesting - I read this post just after reading a co-worker's Facebook status update involving her conversations with a local coroner's office... Our workplace just repatriated some human remains from our collections, and she was looking for a safe, legal, and ethical way to dispose of several containers that we no longer need, but which we'd like to treat with some dignity as they were the (thankfully temporary) resting place of a human being for several years.<br /><br />While I understand that Ms. Carriger's character has to operate within the norms of the culture she exists within (and I love the series as well), I also enjoy the occasional anachronistic realization that some characters have in certain situations, such as Edwin Hocker's musing on how pleasant the company of a liberated woman can be in spite of his own Victorian sensibilities...MacAuslanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00370442118185311081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3235431266233602422.post-65679532245199455252011-06-20T20:54:39.673-07:002011-06-20T20:54:39.673-07:00I have been told my Ms. Carriger herself that a tr...I have been told my Ms. Carriger herself that <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/gailcarriger/status/82975658875174912" rel="nofollow">a transformation is unlikely</a> (which will not stop my enjoyment of these books), but nice pipe dream, eh?Jhahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16985629384463009968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3235431266233602422.post-6700578527300471442011-06-20T16:40:02.850-07:002011-06-20T16:40:02.850-07:00I definitely feel you on the topic of grave robbin...I definitely feel you on the topic of grave robbing. Given the various curses they laid out for tomb robbers, I'm fairly certain the Egyptians, both our own and those of Ms. Carriger's world, feel at least as strongly.<br /><br />While I'd be delighted to see Lady Maccon undergo an awakening regarding the issues of respect you rightly raise, I'd look askance at the rest of the British Empire as depicted in Ms. Carriger's books simply having that realization as well. The process by which such an Empire-loving culture can evolve into one more respectful would be a marvelous story arc, to be sure.<br /><br />Have you read George Mann's works yet? They have flaws and problems by the bucket, but an overly rosy view of science and scientists is not one of them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com