Saturday 15 June 2019

Winter On Avalon

The People Of The Wind, XIII.

Winter:

snow in the mountains and the north;
ever-green susin but cold winds in Gray;
torrential rains leaving occasional rainbows around St. Li.

Susin:

"A mat of mossy, intensely green plants squeezed out any possibility of forest." (2)
-copied from here.

After the rain, Tabitha and Philippe:

see white light from the full moon, Morgana;
hear booming surf;
smell leaf, soil and sea;
feel warm, gritty sand under bare feet, then other sensations as she tells him:

"'You're my first. I was always waiting for you.'" (p. 589)

The inevitable contrast: Dornford Yates' early twentieth century heroes and heroines are celibate or monogamous.

5 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Also, recall my suggestion that one reason some were celibate for non-religious reasons in the early 20th century was simple PRUDENCE. There were no cures or truly workable treatments for sexually transmitted diseases circa 1910-30. Syphilis alone was a widely dreaded killer in those days.

Sean

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Sean,
I am glad to have lived through an era of such great change.
Paul.

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

But not all of them were good changes!

Sean

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Sean,
No but it is our responsibility to make changes for the better, not for the worse.
Paul.

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

That is the ideal. But I expect both good and bad changes to happen.

Sean