Re: The motto of the Qeng Ho

On Wed, 7 May 2008 11:40:03 -0500, mstemper@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Michael Stemper) wrote:

>Vinge credits Poul Anderson as the source for the motto of the Qeng
>Ho. The motto seems to be, "Politcs may come and go, but Greed goes
>on forever." This could have been the motto of Nicholas van Rijn, or
>of the Polesotechnic League, but I don't remember encountering it.
>
>Is this the motto to which Vinge was referring? What's its source in
>Anderson's work?

IIRC, Solar Spice & Liquors's motto was the venerable "All the
traffic will bear."

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Bill Snyder  [This space unintentionally left blank]