a dusty, battered hansom cab
air holding smoke but no gas fumes
milling crowds
gentlemen in bowlers and top hats
sooty navvies
long-skirted women
none of them actors
"England's glory" (Time Patrol, p. 24)
Central Park
boisterous gusty March weather
lingering snow
greening grass
budding shrubs and trees
gleaming, weather-washed towers
a cloud regatta in a blue sky
blood-tingling chilliness
Carl and Laurie have a conversation that makes sense only in the Time Patrol series:
"'The time lines would adjust. They always do.'
"'If that were true, we wouldn't need a Patrol...'"
-Poul Anderson, "The Sorrow of Odin the Goth" IN Anderson, Time Patrol (Riverdale, NY, 2010), pp. 333-465 AT pp. 423-424.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
An alarming question: is the "stream" or "line" of time mutable or immutable? The Time Patrol stories raises far more disturbing questions than THE DANCER FROM ATLANTIS, THE CORRIDORS OF TIME, and THERE WILL BE TIME, in which Anderson exampines time travel based on the idea of immutable time lines. And it was commendable of Anderson to ponder both!
Sean
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