Charlie visits a New Lemurian village:
"This place reminded him of ancient Japanese pictures." (p. 123)
Details include:
wooden walls and high curved roofs with delicately carved beam ends;
colorful clay pots catching rain;
sparse, airy, sunny and clean interiors;
docks smelling of tar, not of fish;
wives sweeping, spinning, weaving, sewing, cooking or preserving;
babies carried on backs;
children working on terraced fields rising to green forested mountains.
What better way to suggest alienness than to compare with ancient Japan? For previous blog references to Japan, see here.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
That mention of the dock of this New Lemurian village smelling of tar, but not of the planet's equivalent of fish rather puzzles me. If most of the adult males were fishers, where else would they take their catch if not to that same dock to be unloaded? So I would have expected "piscine" odors there!
Sean
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