Emil Dalmady, the hero of "Esau," is, at the end of that story, about to become an entrepreneur initially trained and financed by van Rijn. Some of Dalmady's children move to Avalon with Falkayn. His daughter, Judith, recalls Emil's reminiscences when she was younger and also has a good knowledge of the conditions in his youth. In later life, she writes "Esau," which is published in the Avalonian magazine, Morgana, named after one of the planet's moons. Thus, this fifth chapter of the Earth Book is a third previously published work.
"The Season of Forgiveness"
We learn that Judith Dalmady's married name was Lundgren. While her father worked as an entrepreneur near Ivanhoe, he heard of an incident on that planet from one of the people involved. He told it to Judith who wrote it as a story in Morgana. Its setting on Ivanhoe makes this story an indirect sequel to David Falkayn's opening adventure on another continent of that planet. However, that story had been collected in The Trouble Twisters before there was an Earth Book.
These characters become quite engaging. If not for Hloch, we would have known nothing of Dalmady after the end of "Esau." Now, instead, the older Dalmady and even his daughter, Judith, in her later life, have become continuing characters in a few short interstitial passages.
We have come a long way from the psychological problems of "The Saturn Game" but that is the nature of history and of future history - and it remains a single history.
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