"Wildflowers grew round about, long-stemmed and white-petaled. Flandry folded all four pairs of hands on breasts and put a flower in each."
-Poul Anderson, "The Warriors From Nowhere" IN Anderson, Sir Dominic Flandry: The Last Knight Of Terra (Riverdale, NY, 2012), pp. 303-337 AT p. 327.
Enemy pickets have been spelled to sleep, then hit on the head:
"With a grin she used the dirk to snip two roses from the feral bush by the wall, then sheathed it and arranged the two militiamen on their backs with their hands crossed on their chests and the flowers tucked into their fingers."
-SM Stirling, The Desert And The Blade (New York, 2016), Chapter Twenty-Seven, p. 671.
A sense of humor in two universes.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
More cool Andersonian allusions by Stirling! Yes, I like this kind of humor.
And "Say It With Flowers" happens to be the name for one of the stories in Anderson's TALES OF THE FLYING MOUNTAINS.
Sean
...which I forgot.
Kaor, Paul!
I did wonder if you had forgotten or was making an Andersonian allusion yourself!
Sean
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