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=== not even Hornby can afford real servants === | === not even Hornby can afford real servants === | ||
| + | Although the extravagant lifestyles of many of the human characters in ''Tik-Tok'' (the Studebakers, an only slightly upper-middle-class suburban couple, live in pampered luxury; the Culpeppers have money to burn far beyond the wildest dreams of the plantation owners they're imitating) could be seen as just typical satirical exaggeration, there's also a practical angle: in this world, robots are much cheaper than human employees—and probably even cheaper than human slaves, since they can be mass-produced. | ||
=== it is meat to be here === | === it is meat to be here === | ||
Revision as of 18:35, 22 August 2016
Summary
F
("From childhood, Krishna...")
a Mogul miniature painted about 1600
the caustic Ruritanian cartoonist
Ruritania, originally from The Prisoner of Zenda, is a generic fictional country that Sladek also used in Roderick.
not even Hornby can afford real servants
Although the extravagant lifestyles of many of the human characters in Tik-Tok (the Studebakers, an only slightly upper-middle-class suburban couple, live in pampered luxury; the Culpeppers have money to burn far beyond the wildest dreams of the plantation owners they're imitating) could be seen as just typical satirical exaggeration, there's also a practical angle: in this world, robots are much cheaper than human employees—and probably even cheaper than human slaves, since they can be mass-produced.
it is meat to be here
Honest Engine
G
("Great rejoicing in violence...")
H
("Hard by the lake shore...")
University of Kiowa
here I am, meatfaces
I
("In the awful art gallery...")
J
("Just take a good look...")