The "objective correlative" is made explicit when Joelle and Christine walk through rain:
"...bearing their private storms." (p. 114)
Pp. 114-115 describe a Betan storm in which Christine dies:
inky sky
forking lightning
banging thunder
flying clouds
blowing spindrift
rearing, trampling, crashing, exploding sea
white foambursts
grinding shingles
millstone noise
moving bushes
flailing trees
whipping leaves and fronds
roaring, yelling, strengthening wind
rain like spears, axes, a hammer
dissolving soil
blasting, shrieking, yowling tempest
bone-shaking thunder
rising and rising wind
lightning, then booming lightlessness
hail stones whitening land, bruising and drawing blood
whip-thin branch flaying Joelle into the mud and water and fracturing Christine's larynx...
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Very dramatic! And realistically depicted by Anderson. I believe even very terrestroid planets has to be expected to have weathers very different from what we see on Earth.
Ad astra! Sean
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