"'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.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I 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
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