Wednesday, 24 February 2021

Darkness Within

Poul Anderson bears comparison with Ian Fleming and CS Lewis although those two English authors have nothing in common with each other.

The hologram of Liannathan of Chereion to Dominic Flandry:

"'I told you, knowing what darkness you must dwell in, for mercy's sake we will leave your thoughts alone unless you compel us.'"

One planetary angel to another, discussing Elwin Ransom, a human being:

"'...in his best thoughts there are such things mingled as, if we thought them, our light would perish.'"
-CS Lewis, Perelandra IN Lewis, The Cosmic Trilogy (London, 1990), pp. 145-348 AT 16, p. 322.
 
But Ransom "'...is in the body of Maleldil...,'" (Lewis, ibid.) a Solar way of saying something that we express differently here.

Human thoughts are both light and darkness.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

I remember that hologram of "Liannathan," and what I recalled was Flandry soon not being quite CONVINCED it was a real person he spoke to. AT least, not one still ALIVE.

Ad astra! Sean