I'm also new to the Culture, so I'm enjoying the discovery as much as the fic.
I'm looking forward to the first time someone tries to strongarm Harry, btw. Given what I've learned about the Culture since finding this story, I expect he's been gengineered into being superhuman, and that's without the gland-drugs...
-- Bob
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I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life, and I shall baffle you with cabbages and rhinoceroses in the kitchen and incessant quotations from Now We Are Six through the mouthpiece of Lord Snooty's giant poisoned electric head. So theeeeeere....
I'm looking forward to the first time someone tries to strongarm Harry, btw. Given what I've learned about the Culture since finding this story, I expect he's been gengineered into being superhuman, and that's without the gland-drugs...
-- Bob
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I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life, and I shall baffle you with cabbages and rhinoceroses in the kitchen and incessant quotations from Now We Are Six through the mouthpiece of Lord Snooty's giant poisoned electric head. So theeeeeere....