Both Uses of
pauper
in
Oryx and Crake
- Despite the fingerprint identity cards now carried by everyone, public security in the pleeblands was leaky: there were people cruising around in those places who could forge anything and who might be anybody, not to mention the loose change — the addicts, the muggers, the paupers, the crazies.†
p. 27.5paupers = people who are very poor
- The coverage was usually poor on that site: filming was said to be prohibited, so it was just some desperate pauper with a hidden minivideocam, risking his life for filthy Western currency.†
p. 82.6 *pauper = someone who is very poor