Maureen Wynn
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I saw a question asking you for the meaning of Miles' line "I am the man who owns Vorkosigan Vashnoi" but I had to sign off before I could read your answer, and now I can't find that question in Goodreads - no frelling search function! I have my own ideas what that line means to Miles, but I would love to know what you meant by it? My apologies for repeating a question that has already been answered!
Lois McMaster Bujold
Yes, this GR Q&A function is in dire need of a search function. I don't think whoever set it up imagined answered questions over time running into the many hundreds. When they started out, the reader could not even order questions by newest-first, but was just presented with a random mix. Maybe if many, many people requested a Q&A search function of the GR site wranglers, one might be installed?
To answer your question, Miles was at that moment having his epiphany about his true identity through that metaphor of his Barrayaran stubborness refusing to give up his underlying identity as a Barrayaran and a Vorkosigan, despite how Naismith's glittering galactic possibilities tried to seduce him. Not just the echo of his ancestors' war-tenacity, but an echo of his future responsibilities to his District and redeeming the poisoned land.
Ta, L.
To answer your question, Miles was at that moment having his epiphany about his true identity through that metaphor of his Barrayaran stubborness refusing to give up his underlying identity as a Barrayaran and a Vorkosigan, despite how Naismith's glittering galactic possibilities tried to seduce him. Not just the echo of his ancestors' war-tenacity, but an echo of his future responsibilities to his District and redeeming the poisoned land.
Ta, L.
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S Wright
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Having read and re-read all your works that I can find through many stages of my life I continue to identify with all your depictions of motherhood, both internal and external. Currently my oldest is on the cusp of adulthood, and although I see external descriptions of this stage of parenting, I've searched and not found the internal depiction I'm craving. Have you any plans from this POV?
Stephen
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Any chance of the story describing the episode "more than a simple assassination" that Miles mentions in A Civil Campaign? Or the one with a tenyearold girl as courier, mentioned in Komarr? Or are they doomed to be unvoiced backstory? Thanks for all the enjoyment you've provided already!
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