"He paid scant attention to the beauties of the landscape sliding below, though they were considerable - mist-magical delta, broad sweep of valley, river's sinuous glow, all white under the moons. He must be one with the wind that blew across this sleeping land."
-"A Tragedy of Errors," p. 526.
For previous blog references to oneness "...with the man in the wind and the west moon...," see:
A Vast, Multi-Faceted Fictitious Universe
Relevant Readings And Recitations
For the Wanderer in the wind, see:
The Wind II
- but the wind and its significance have recurred many times. This time, it means unexpected danger. The passage continues:
"And blew.
"Harder.
"The plane bucked. The noise around it shrilled more and more clamorous." (ibid.)
The distant clouds approach impossibly fast. Tom thinks:
"East wind! Couldn't be!" (ibid.)
Before setting off, Tom had known that a storm was approaching but had expected to remain in its fringes. He thought:
"Who ever heard of weather moving very far west, on the western seacoast of a planet with rotation like this?" (p. 525)
OK. Not only the lack of metal but also the chaotic weather is a mystery of Nike.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I remember a passage in one of Stirling's Emberverse books in which a group of soldiers were going thru a pass and noticed the crumbling ruins of pre-Change structures overlooking the pass. One character asked if they had been built to control and militarily dominate the pass. An aging pre-Change survivor laughed bitterly and said they were villas whose owners had built them there because the view was pretty!
Ad astra! Sean
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