Whispering lies and love
Shall mock your passage down the sunless river
Which, rolling all it streams,
shall take you, king of dreams,
Unthroned and unapproachable for ever
To where the kings who dreamed of old
Whiten in habitations monumental cold.
-copied from here.
We have connected the works of Poul Anderson, SM Stirling, James Elroy Flecker and Neil Gaiman several times, e.g., here. (See also here.) Maybe Flecker's "sunless river" can serve as the last of our reflections on significant rivers for the time being?
"Rivers" would have been a lengthy post if published as a unit but I have been gadding about with social interactions as The Boat Of A Million Years approaches the milestone or way station of yet another year end.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Another river I thought of from literature was Anduin, the Great River, from Tolkien's Middle Earth mythos, flowing from its sources in the Misty and Grey mountain south to where it met the sea at Pelargir.
Ad astra and Merry Christmas! Sean
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