Yet again we encounter futuristic furniture:
"Kinna took a chair but did not at once relax into its form-fitting embrace." (p. 91)
Often, Anderson's characters are too tense to relax and enjoy their comfortable furniture.
Monday 19 November 2018
Wanda And Kinna
Yet again we encounter futuristic furniture:
"Kinna took a chair but did not at once relax into its form-fitting embrace." (p. 91)
Often, Anderson's characters are too tense to relax and enjoy their comfortable furniture.
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Paul:
Incidentally, Andre Norton was another author who used the self-adjusting furniture. She referred to it by variously spelled portmanteaux of "easy" and "rest" — Eazi-rest, easirest, et cetera, and at least once wrote of its "enveloping embrace."
Oops, I meant to include that Easy Rest is also the name of a company that started out making waterbeds, and now apparently makes adjustable (but not self-adjusting, so far as I know) beds. The firm was founded in 1977, however, and Norton put the "eazi-rest" in her stories at least as early as 1961, in Catseye.
David,
Maybe you could submit an article comparing Anderson and Norton?
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
I'm pretty sure Nicholas van Rijn rose above tension and anxiety to always be relaxed wherever he went! Well, maybe not when personally piloting a space ship.
Sean
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