"Her eyes rose to the sunset, lurid copper and jade-green and midnight blue in the west."
-SM Stirling, The Desert And The Blade (New York, 2016), Chapter Thirty-Two, p. 808.
How many sunsets have we had? See here.
Poul Anderson describes a sunrise here:
"The sun stood up in a shout of light.
"High is heaven and holy." (13)
- and mixes the symbolisms of sunset and sunrise here:
The novel ends: "Above the cliffs, a few eastern clouds turned red." (11)
This is mixed symbolism. Red is the color of sunsets. Something is ending. But these are eastern clouds. This is a morning. Something is beginning. We will see what when we turn to the next work in the History.
- both extracts copied from here.
Houses have been built between our back yards and back alley and the railway line. The sun rises at our front but this morning it was reflected from a window of a house at the back.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
-copied from here.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
We also see Dominic Flandry bleakly reflecting, as he listened to Prince Cerdic talking about his ruthless ambitions in "Tiger By The Tail," of those ambitions being achieved by the "sunrise" of nuclear weapons exploding. Of how untold millions would not see that "sunrise" because of being killed as the Empire fell and the Long Night crashed down. Oh yes, Flandry was right to thwart the Scothans!
Sean
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