The sentiment, to me, expresses that you can have monetary wealth, wealth in political clout, wealth in lots of tangible ways-- but that's not important in the long run. Miles and Mark (and Elena and Simon and...) are Aral's true wealth. He might equally have said, "All true wealth is sentient," which to me is the point here, but that just doesn't sound as good, does it?
*nodding*. Going straight up the middle, it might be fair to say that it's simply a reaffirmation of the importance of these things, of what we inherit for who and what we will be. And as expressed elsewhere, passing this along is one of the most important things a person can do (a sentiment I'm less apt to agree with, actually, though luckily she doesn't simply limit it to the transmition of DNA).
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Date: 2006-09-05 09:16 pm (UTC)but that's not important in the long run. Miles and Mark (and Elena and Simon and...) are Aral's true wealth. He might equally have said, "All true wealth
is sentient," which to me is the point here, but that just doesn't sound as good, does it?
*nodding*. Going straight up the middle, it might be fair to say that it's simply a reaffirmation of the importance of these things, of what we inherit for who and what we will be. And as expressed elsewhere, passing this along is one of the most important things a person can do (a sentiment I'm less apt to agree with, actually, though luckily she doesn't simply limit it to the transmition of DNA).