After the Change, these school subjects are boring:
Presidents;
rockets;
atoms;
"'...all that hooey.'"
These subjects are more like real life:
King Arthur;
Robin Hood;
Niall of the Nine Hostages;
Thor's trip to Jotunheim;
A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Connections with Poul Anderson's works:
Niall of the Nine Hostages destroyed Ys;
the former King of Ys formed a defensive alliance with British leaders of the generation before Arthur;
an immortal met the original of Arthur;
Anderson's fantasies feature Thor and a trip to Jotunheim although not Thor's trip to Jotunheim;
A Midsummer Tempest is a sequel to A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest.
And why did Shakespeare not write a Robin Hood play, having mentioned Robin in As You like It?
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I can see why things like rockets would bore school children in post-Change societies. The very first rockets were made using gunpowder and now you can't make even fire crackers with gunpowder!
I would regret if things like a knowledge of atoms were forgotten. Even if it was now much harder to make use of such information.
Sean
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