Wednesday 24 August 2022

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A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows, IX, pp. 453-465.

This chapter begins, just two lines above the bottom of p. 453, with a bracket, thus: {. The bracket is repeated/renewed/refreshed only once, after a double space in the text, two lines above the bottom of p. 458. The bracket is closed two thirds of the way down p. 465 and only two sentences before the end of the chapter.

The brackets enclose an extended reminiscence/flashback to Flandry's last meeting with Tachwyr of Merseia and Aycharaych of Chereion on the planet Talwin near the end of the Terran civil war.

However, I have just been diverted into a philosophical discussion on email and do not feel like tackling Flandry's reminiscence this evening! There is always more.

1 comment:

S.M. Stirling said...

Vaughn isn't fighting for his nation, or for a cause, or even for his confederates; nothing except the cause of Ego.

The Exaltationists are explicit that if they win, they'll then fight among themselves until only one "God" remains to reign alone.