Everard, Wanda and Volstrup are in an unaltered 1137 but with a beta alteration ahead of them. Their mood is:
"...as bleak as the December day outside." (p. 374)
The weather always obliges. I have found an image of Palermo with clouds instead of a blue sky.
When Volstrup agrees to answer Everard's questions, his reply is "...barely audible..." and:
"In the gloom his nutcracker face showed pale. Outside, wind whooped and a dash of rain blew from wolf-grey heaven." (p. 376)
The wind never lets up. A dash of rain could mean an approaching storm and a wolf-colored sky suggests a celestial menace.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
In a less competent writer this use of the winds and weather would have been clunky and obtrusive. But I don't that was true of Anderson's stories, including even the earliest.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
I think that most readers are affected by the metaphors and pathetic fallacies without reflecting on them.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
That was certainly the case with me, before I found this blog!
Ad astra! Sean
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