[Dragaera] Gender imbalance in the Jhereg [No Spoilers]

[Gaertk at aol.com]

lincicum at comcast.net (Jon Lincicum) writes:

>>Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> writes:
>>
>>>On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Jon Lincicum wrote:
>>>
>>>> I seem to recall Kiera telling Vlad that most Jhereg aren't criminals at
>>>> all...
>>>
>>>That would contradict my view, so I'd be eager to see a cite.
>>
>>ISTR that too, but don't have a cite handy.  I thought it was 
>>something like "not all Orca are sailors, just as not all Jhereg are
>>in the Organization", which implies _Orca_ which isn't part of
>>Dragaera search yet.  And Amazon's search for "organization" didn't 
>>show anything interesting in that book.
>
>...and there it is. /Orca/, omnibus page 330-331:

(and page 151 in the mmpb)

>"But I suspect the real explanation is that, just as most Jhereg have nothing
>to do with criminal activity, most Orca live out their whole lives on land, 
>channeling their mercantile instincts into other pursuits--running banks, for
>example." 

That explains why I couldn't find anything when searching for 
"organization".  Thanks for finding it.

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