When Dagny Beynac hears that her son, Kaino, has died, she sets the large viewscreen in her living room to a scene that fits her mood, then plays it from Lunar dawnwatch. I think we are to understand that the scene is multi-sensory. It is as if Dagny's room is alone in extreme Terrestrial weather:
surf crashes on a winter shore;
waves and sky are gray;
water hisses up the sand;
bleached, skeletal driftwood lies beneath cliffs;
low wrack flies like smoke;
spray and rain mingle;
skirl and rumble shake the air;
there is a tang of salt and a breath of chill.
If this is indeed multi-sensory, then all five senses are addressed. Would you like that in your living room?
Kaor, Paul!
ReplyDeleteI don't think Dagny Beynac LIKED or enjoyed this, it simply FITTED her bleak, grim mood as she mourned her son's death.
Sean