The following passage contains at at least three points of interest to persistent blog readers:
"The moon had not yet appeared to brighten that sharp, high westward blackness named the Crag. But stars blossomed beyond counting, crowding the sky till its own crystal dark seemed to come alive and, in some way that never touched the great peace, ring beneath their lightfall. They flaunted their colors, blue-white Rigel, golden Capella, ember Betelgeuse. The Milky Way cascaded among them, in knife-edge clarity, quietly and argently ablaze. A planet newly risen glowed so lamplike that it cast a glade over the sea, which reached in polished ebony and flickering pale straks down past the foot of the steeply descending land." (p. 59)
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Kaor, Paul!
One thing I question is whether it would be possible to see, from within Earth's atmosphere, how some of the stars have different colors. I have never seen any such variously colored stars like that.
And, yet again we see Anderson's baffling and idiosyncratic use of "glade"! I wish I had thought of asking him, in one of my letters to him, why he used "glade" so differently from how every dictionary wherein I looked up that word INSISTS it means!
Ad astra! Sean
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