Narrow Land continuation

Bought a very cheap laptop for the writing. Thought about most essential thing; the feeling of fear or just some thorn. Not quite an absolute requirement but pretty close. In book after fiction book, to the extent the concept isn't followed I can't be bothered to continue. Just subjective possibly but now seems so obvious.

Want to mess around with a continuation of Vance's Narrow Land. I remember as they steal the clutch of eggs I was so interested to see what would happen next. But Vance stopped so for fun I'll finally continue. Two female 3's. The first ever. What will they be like? And two, male 3's. But unfortunately not tempered by the single feminine egg. They will be less adapt at seeing other points of view. Less compassionate, more violent and impetuous(sp) but also great at making weapons and fighting off the 2's and 1's... A load of... tedious trouble. What should make it not so tedious is developing the good qualities of the heroic figures as they overcome the fears, the thorns, the obstacles put at them.

But Vance's "hero's" had few qualities. Just competent, reserved and decently intelligent. Ern is also... more questioning of tradition. Mazar the Final is old and weary.

There's nothing wrong with 2D characters like with Vance or Tolkien I suppose. To be able to have 2D characters and still write well is certainly an accomplishment... These characters serve as archtypes I suppose. Perhaps. Eh. The settings of Vance and Tolkien were "realer" than any others I'm aware of and i wonder if 3D characters take away from the setting...

But I prefer more character development. As much as I like escapist fantasy, human beings matter more to me than settings. Clive Barker's Imagica is a better book than anything by Tolkien or Vance. And fantasy humans would mean more than any silly setting.

It's no wonder I'm so biased against Barker though:
http://www.clivebarker.com/
What a doof.

But it's just image which should mean nothing. The problem is exactly that he acts like image does mean something to him. Still I like what he says:
http://www.clivebarker.info/wisdomindex.html
and will go there myself now. Not normal to start this late... but it's really just figuring out how to switch mediums.

There will be fighting concerning 4 males and 2 females. There will be trouble from the 2's/1's. A continuing clash between civilizations. The 3's will be tempered by compassion. It will stop them from just slaughtering the lot. Except the 2 uber male 3's will go overboard... Maybe it will be found the two females need much longer for reproduction than stealing from the 1's. But in stealing Mazar and Ern really don't want to create anymore like the two uber 3 males. And what to do with the two they did? These two who can't be reasoned with. Doesn't particularly matter. Putting the question in mind is enough. Nothing preachy. Just keep constant fears in mind.

And so on whatever. Don't need to talk about it here.

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Agony of stomach/back pain took me to the hospital at 3AM. Probably something wrong with my kidneys but it went away within 4 hours. Wasn't admitted and thus will have to pay a few thousand dollars as that's how my US health insurance works.

Wife has been offered job with Canadian company. Hope she takes it. Still would live here, but it could be a step to getting out of this country.