OK. This is the last post until Monday. For a private conversation, Lissa and her father stand on the watchtower of Ernhurst although they must dress for winter:
the air is quiet and keen;
the sky is blue;
breath smokes;
snow has fallen;
the forest is coppery-umber;
the distant sea sheens bright;
swartwings fly high;
their cries ring.
Before the paragraph ends, we expect a sound from the birds to complete the multi-sensory description - and are not disappointed.
Tomorrow morning, over breakfast, I will check the blog for comments but might not post. Train from Lancaster at 09:39.
High is heaven and holy.
5 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
A watch tower in a manor house set a thousand years from now using very advanced technology is very archaic all by itself! Lissa and her father could have spoken with complete security in a room with sophisticated technology guarding against spies and bugs.
Sean
Sean,
Ah yes but Lissa feels a sense of family tradition in speaking on the watchtower.
I leave for London in half an hour.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
That is true, and I did have something like that "sense of family tradition" in the back of my mind. I suppose we don't have to ALWAYS be sophisticated and up to date!
Have a good time in London!
Sean
Sean,
Thank you.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
This week I've been rereading THE HIGH CRUSADE, and I'm now rereading Anderson's short short story sequel, "Quest." Both were fun to read!
CRUSADE does have one or two dated points. One being how COMPUTERS were not used for storing information, such as the navigational data collected by the Wersgor exploratory ship from their empire to Terra. But I can understand why Anderson had such information only in written form, computers were still so PRIMITIVE when CRUSADE was first pub. in 1959-60.
The short story sequel, "Quest<" was set some 30 years after THE HIGH CRUSADE (and first pub. in 1983). The differences to be seen in the two stories are interesting. We not only see computers being used also the English exiles using or developing still further the advanced sciences they came to learn for creating UNICORNS.
Sean
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