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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. | 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. | ||
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| + | A joke on ''meet'' in the archaic sense of "appropriate". James Joyce in ''Ulysses'': | ||
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| + | <blockquote>The Jews in the wilderness and on the mountaintop said: It is meet to be here. Let us build an altar to Jehovah. The Roman, like the Englishman who follows in his footsteps, brought to every new shore on which he set his foot (on our shore he never set it) only his cloacal obsession. He gazed about him in his toga and he said: It is meet to be here. Let us construct a watercloset.[http://www.online-literature.com/james_joyce/ulysses/7/]</blockquote> | ||
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Revision as of 18:40, 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
A joke on meet in the archaic sense of "appropriate". James Joyce in Ulysses:
The Jews in the wilderness and on the mountaintop said: It is meet to be here. Let us build an altar to Jehovah. The Roman, like the Englishman who follows in his footsteps, brought to every new shore on which he set his foot (on our shore he never set it) only his cloacal obsession. He gazed about him in his toga and he said: It is meet to be here. Let us construct a watercloset.[1]
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...")