Kenmuir and Aleka are on Vancouver Island where the sun:
"...threw a glade across the bay..." (37, p. 482) (scroll down)
Centuries earlier, Dagny Beynac is found dead on the Moon. (38, p. 486)
"Luna mourned. On Earth, every Fireball flag went to half-mast." (p. 487)
I had thought that we might read a conversation between living Dagny and download Dagny. Probably such a conversation does happen between chapters.
Like DD Harriman, "The Man Who Sold The Moon," Dagny Beynac, "The Mother of the Moon," dies of heart failure while appreciating the view on the Lunar surface. Her legacy continues. Next we read a letter that she had left for her eldest son.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I am finding this use of "glade" by Poul Anderson one of his rare, mistaken use of a word. "Glade" simply doesn't MEAN what we see it being used for here, in the text you quoted. After the discussions we've had about it, I think I am always going to have in mind that it means an OPEN SPACE within a forest, not the Moon shining on waters. Anderson MUST have known it means that!
Sean
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