Couple of responses -- people with the ability to Create are actually extremely common, but you have to be trained to achieve much proficiency. I should probably get into that deeper. Jack, for example, inherited it from his father, but didn't train and so lost it. Creationists who are trained are taught rigorous ethics, and there are very high penalties for things like Creating money.
"Head" is kind of a Britishism I think, at many Universities the upper administration are known primarily by their title.
I was genuinely sorry to let the Shakespeare Machine go, especially since I didn't nick it from Thursday Next, but I felt like such a defining first-chapter image should probably not even be "possibly nicked" :D
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Couple of responses -- people with the ability to Create are actually extremely common, but you have to be trained to achieve much proficiency. I should probably get into that deeper. Jack, for example, inherited it from his father, but didn't train and so lost it. Creationists who are trained are taught rigorous ethics, and there are very high penalties for things like Creating money.
"Head" is kind of a Britishism I think, at many Universities the upper administration are known primarily by their title.
I was genuinely sorry to let the Shakespeare Machine go, especially since I didn't nick it from Thursday Next, but I felt like such a defining first-chapter image should probably not even be "possibly nicked" :D