All guests and staff in the Patrol Pleistocene Pyrenees lodge have gathered in the dining room to cope with an emergency. Outside, nature responds accordingly. First, light comes uneasily through the windows because clouds sweep low. They are driven by a wind whose booming provides an undertone to the meeting. It is the sound of autumn moving south. Is this emergency the autumn of the Time Patrol timeline? Everard feels that the cold outside seeps inward even though he knows that this can only be imagination.
As ever, pathetic fallacy, including a commentary by the wind.
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Kaor, Paul!
Another way Anderson might have used the wind/weather in a pathetic fallacy would have been to describe a beautiful, mild, sunny day with a gentle breeze. That might have led readers to think that here "nature" was showing its cruel indifference to human beings.
Ad astra! Sean
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