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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7738242" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>I suspect you'll have a lot of protests and negative publicity surrounding this book. Just remember that those people are not your customers and would not become your customers if you addressed them.</p><p></p><p>The art is beautiful. The story of the encounter between Cortez and Montezuma, which we actually have in great detail and can retrace the steps of those men, is one of the most tragic in human history. In particular, the moment when Montezuma decides to show off his piety to this strange demigod, and he brings the party up into the charnal house that was one of their great temples expecting them to be impressed by the hundreds of burning human hearts, encapsulates the genocide by culture shock that became the history of Mesoamerica. Sometime in the distant history of Cortez's people, it was thinkable to imagine sacrificing your own daughter to ensure the fortunes of war. But in Montezuma's present world, it was not thinkable to imagine that they would not, and to Cortez it was like receiving the very vision of hell. For the Aztec's, it was an excession crisis. You either adapted or died; they couldn't adapt. For the Spaniards, it was the confluence of all their basest instincts with all their most noble - no more perfect excuse to engage in the theft and murder that was the trade of those hardened mercenaries could have been devised.</p><p></p><p>It is the hubris of the modern man, that he imagines himself more moral and more enlightened than everyone who ever went before him, and judges everyone before his moral inferiors. I've always felt that to be a great failure of imagination, beyond the fact it is simply bad history. </p><p></p><p>I wish you luck. I personally am not very interested in drawing such explicit parallels with real history. But you have some powerful source material to draw on, and I hope you do it justice. Certainly I've never seen the like of it before, so it already has one thing going for it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7738242, member: 4937"] I suspect you'll have a lot of protests and negative publicity surrounding this book. Just remember that those people are not your customers and would not become your customers if you addressed them. The art is beautiful. The story of the encounter between Cortez and Montezuma, which we actually have in great detail and can retrace the steps of those men, is one of the most tragic in human history. In particular, the moment when Montezuma decides to show off his piety to this strange demigod, and he brings the party up into the charnal house that was one of their great temples expecting them to be impressed by the hundreds of burning human hearts, encapsulates the genocide by culture shock that became the history of Mesoamerica. Sometime in the distant history of Cortez's people, it was thinkable to imagine sacrificing your own daughter to ensure the fortunes of war. But in Montezuma's present world, it was not thinkable to imagine that they would not, and to Cortez it was like receiving the very vision of hell. For the Aztec's, it was an excession crisis. You either adapted or died; they couldn't adapt. For the Spaniards, it was the confluence of all their basest instincts with all their most noble - no more perfect excuse to engage in the theft and murder that was the trade of those hardened mercenaries could have been devised. It is the hubris of the modern man, that he imagines himself more moral and more enlightened than everyone who ever went before him, and judges everyone before his moral inferiors. I've always felt that to be a great failure of imagination, beyond the fact it is simply bad history. I wish you luck. I personally am not very interested in drawing such explicit parallels with real history. But you have some powerful source material to draw on, and I hope you do it justice. Certainly I've never seen the like of it before, so it already has one thing going for it. [/QUOTE]
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