Thursday 21 June 2018

The First Moment

"The fact that he was really here, now, personally, stabbed into him."
-Poul Anderson, The Corridors Of Time, CHAPTER FIVE, p. 38.

"...here, now..." is pre-Danish Denmark,  1827 B.C.

"This was the first moment when the reality of time travel struck home to Everard..." (see Reality And Interpretation)

There has to be a first moment for everything and Poul Anderson makes it seem very real in both these cases.


1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

And we see a similar "first moment" for Dominic Flandry in Chapter 17 ENSIGN FLANDRY: "His first space battle, as terrifying, bewildering, and exalting as his first woman. He lusted to be in a gun turret."

Sean