Thursday 29 March 2018

Sir! II

See Sir!

Chives asks to be excused so that he may prepare supper. Flandry demurs.

"'Sir?' Chives raised the eyebrows he didn't have."
-Poul Anderson, "Hunters of the Sky Cave" IN Anderson, Sir Dominic Flandry: The Last Knight Of Terra (Riverdale, NY, 2012), pp. 149-301 AT XVI, p. 274.

Flandry explains that he and Chives are needed on the bridge and that a CPO will cook.

"'Sir!' bleated Chives."
-ibid.

Jeeves could not have said it better. (I believe that, somewhere in the Wooster cannon, Jeeves, temporarily crushed and deflated, trickles into a room.)

Meanwhile, our heroes speed towards the battle depicted on this cover.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Ha! I recently reread HUNTERS OF THE SKY CAVE and I well recall Chives pained distress at how he and Flandry would have to eat, for a while, rough Navy cuisine!"

And you certainly seem to be a fan of P.D. Wodehouse's Jeeves/Wooster stories!

Sean