Remembering his murdered fiancee, Fenn reflects that she should be resurrected:
"Her ashes ought not to blow about forever across dead deserts. It was right that someday their atoms again form living flesh and beat in living blood. Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
"Fenn didn't recall where in his random reading he had seen that line. It didn't matter." (pp. 346-349)
But it does matter and googling gives us Ezekiel 37:9, yet another Biblical passage.
At the end of the preceding chapter, Chuan had coped with Kinna's death not by contemplating her resurrection but by reflecting that she was a small, haphazard fluctuation in reality. (p. 339)
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Dang, Poul Anderson HAS to be almost unique among SF writers in how OFTEN he quotes from or alludes to the Bible, both directly and indirectly. In this case, Ezekiel 37.9.
Chuan might not be a bad man, but I find his attitude towards Kinna's death cold and off putting. And it's certainly not borne out by Scripture, where Christ said everything is a matter of concern to God, including even sparrows!
Sean
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