Monday 2 April 2018

"Forever Lost"

Flying above Imhotep, Targovi sees a single continental forest, green and gold, silver with rivers and lakes, like the mythical Land of Trees Beyond. He thinks that it is splendid although not Starkad:

"...but why mourn for that which was forever lost?"
-Poul Anderson, The Game Of Empire IN Anderson, Flandry's Legacy (Riverdale, NY, 2012), pp. 189-453 AT CHAPTER THREE, p. 236.

"...forever lost..." is an evocative phrase and not only because it recalls Poul Anderson's Time Patrol. See here. (Scroll down.)

2 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

It helped, of course, that Targovi belonged to the generations of younger Tigeries born on Imhotep. So, unlike his parents, he did not PERSONALLY have the sense of loss they felt.

Sean

David Birr said...

"Nothing is lost forever, except for the Cathedral of Chalesm."
— Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe, and Everything

Sorry; couldn't resist. Explanation of my cryptic wisecrack is at: http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Cathedral_of_Chalesm