"...but why mourn for that which was forever lost?"
-Poul Anderson, The Game Of Empire IN Anderson, Flandry's Legacy (Riverdale, NY, 2012), pp. 189-453 AT CHAPTER THREE, p. 236.
"...forever lost..." is an evocative phrase and not only because it recalls Poul Anderson's Time Patrol. See here. (Scroll down.)
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Kaor, Paul!
It helped, of course, that Targovi belonged to the generations of younger Tigeries born on Imhotep. So, unlike his parents, he did not PERSONALLY have the sense of loss they felt.
Sean
"Nothing is lost forever, except for the Cathedral of Chalesm."
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Sorry; couldn't resist. Explanation of my cryptic wisecrack is at: http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Cathedral_of_Chalesm
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