Flandry addresses Djana:
"He spoke calmly, as if these were the lost days when they two had fared after treasure." (p.348)
Those "lost days" were a single expedition earlier in this same novel. However, Anderson captures the feel of all "lost days." I have found that nostalgia can focus even on a single evening or incident.
Djana imagines the Merseian ship pursuing Flandry and her through space:
"The image might have sprung to her physical vision, shark shape across the Milky Way, man's great foes black-clad at the guns." (p. 353)
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Kaor, Paul!
Poul Anderson was very good at crafting graphic and evocative images! That was one big reason why I came to favor him over Asimov, another author I read in my youth. I came to realize how flat, colorless, and boring his longer stories came to be for me.
Ad astra! Sean
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