She says:
"'Let the past tend the past...We've tomorrow to hunt in.'" (p. 731) (For full reference, see here.)
Jesus said:
"Let the dead bury the dead." (See here.)
Merseians say:
"'Hunt well.'
"'Hunt well.'"
-Poul Anderson, Ensign Flandry IN Anderson, Young Flandry (Riverdale, NY, 2012), pp. 1-192 AT CHAPTER TEN, p. 92.
And that is all that I can manage at a quarter to midnight after driving back from the Station Hotel. "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow." (See here.)
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Now that was a very neat turn of phrase Poul Anderson had Graydal saying! He must have had Christ's words about the dead burying the dead in mind. Or was it unconscious on his part, this time?
Sean
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