On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Casey Rousseau wrote: > Based on Aliera's explanations in Yendi, the acknowedged clusterings of > genetic drift can be found in Teckla and Jhereg. Nothing in the books have > explicitly said that it is possible to become/remain a member of the Yendi > if one is a crossbreed. No one in the books is in a position to know (well, ok, conceivably Aliera) or (in Pel's case) informed and likely to tell the truth. According to the cuckoo theory there should be a good deal of taboo associated with Yendi. (Also probably a lot of gutter humor. Come to think of it, I don't think there's anything ribald in the Texts - I'm thinking of the sort of jokes I have to read the footnotes to understand in the first acts of Shakespearean comedies, or Rabelais, or say Laurence Sterne. Guess it would slow things down too much.)