"'Go,' he said in the Urdahu. 'Wait outside.' The guards obeyed. He nodded at Flandry. 'Be seated, if you wish.'"
-"Hunters of the Sky Cave," XII, pp. 242-243.
This passage reminded me of the two that were compared in the first "Parallel Passages" post. (See the first link above.)
In these respective scenes:
guards bring Everard to Cerialis;
guards bring Flandry to McCormac;
guards bring Flandry to Svantozik of the Janneer Ya, an Intelligence officer of the Ardazirho force occupying Vixen.
Similar situations recur in this kind of fiction. I will probably continue rereading Flandry's adventures on Vixen tomorrow.
For what it is worth, I have finished reading the new Le Carre novel. SPOILER ALERT: Its hero does something that Flandry would never do - OK, I will not spell it out in case some reader of this blog does read that book.
We are still suffering from bad weather alerts here.
Kaor, Paul!
ReplyDeleteI looked up your link and I agree in seeing those parallels you saw.
So many books I should read, including those of Le Carre! And how impossible to read them all!
On Saturday I went to Barnes and Noble to buy a book I had been thinking of getting for some time: SOMETHING DEEPLY HIDDEN: QUANTUM WORLDS AND THE EMERGENCE OF SPACE TIME, by Sean Carroll. I think the subject matter will cover, from a different perspective, what we read in Frank Tipler's THE PHYSICS OF CHRISTIANITY.
Ad astra! Sean