Thursday, 21 November 2024

Introductions

Poul Anderson, A Circus Of Hells IN Anderson, Young Flandry (Riverdale, NY, January 2010), pp. 193-365.

(That is definitely the best A Circus Of Hells cover.)

p. 193 is an internal title page. p. 194 is blank. p. 195 is a dedication. p. 196 is blank. Thus, CHAPTER ONE begins on p. 197.

In the opening paragraph, some unidentified narrator tells us what this story is about:

"...a lost treasure..." (p. 197)

- etc. There are seven items in total. Flandry is quoted as saying that:

"...it begins with a coincidence." (ibid.)

We are not yet in Flandry's narrative point of view. Someone else is telling us about him. In the second paragraph, this unidentified narrator discourses about the improbability of Flandry and Tachwyr the Dark meeting again.

I am being cut off. To be continued tomorrow.

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