Ensign Flandry, CHAPTERs THREE and TEN.
When Brechdan Ironrede reflects on age, his thoughts could equally apply to a human being and maybe to any intelligent organism:
"...at first the thing merely creeps forward, a dulling of sense and a waning of strength, nothing that enzyme therapy can't handle - then, suddenly, overnight, you are borne on a current so fast that the landscape blurs, and you hear the cataract roar ahead of you." (TEN, p. 92)
That passage is about life and could equally have been published as part of a historical or a contemporary novel.
Ythrians of the New Faith see the shadow of God the Hunter across their personal futures, a shadow that leads to total darkness, not to a renewal of light. Brechdan believes that he will give:
"...back this flesh to the soil and this mind to the God." (THREE, p. 23)
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
And I would empathically disagree with the Ythrians and agree much more Brechdan! Altho I would more likely think of giving my SOUL back to God.
Ad astra! Sean
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