On 7 May, 18:46, Bill Snyder <bsny...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Wed, 7 May 2008 11:40:03 -0500, mstem...@[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."
>
Not quite. That was the motto of the Polesotechnic League, of which
SS&L was a member.
Cheers,
Nigel.
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