Ctibor

Ctibor asked Lois McMaster Bujold:

I have re-read 'Memory' so often that the book is falling apart at the seams (the other books too btw). However, there is one crucial sentence in, which I still don't completely understand, and I wondered if you could clarify. I understand Miles at this turning point, but the significance of Vorkosigan Vashnoi still eludes me. "I am the man who owns Vorkosigan Vashnoi." Help and Sorry?

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Vashnoi was the old Vorkosigan's District capital that was nuked toward the end of the Cetagandan Occupation aka 9th Satrapy. It is part (center, actually) of all the radioactive land Miles's grandfather left him.

For Miles, then, it is a symbol of dying before surrender, the ultimate Barrayaran stubbornness; he is, as it were, declaring his ownership of his Barrayaran self, Lord Vorkosigan, not Admiral Naismith, along with the dream, memory, and remains of the lost city. No matter how unrewarding that identity may sometimes seem to him...

Ta, L.

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