"I looked at her with a sudden resoect. It was true. Men died and civilizations died, but before they died they lived. No effort was altogether futile."
-"Cold Victory," p. 70.
Manse Everard of the Time Patrol surveys the Egyptian Harbor in Hiram's Tyre. Then:
"It would die at last, all of this, centuries hence, as everything must die; but first, how mightily would it have lived! How rich would be its heritage!"
-Poul Anderson, "Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks" IN Anderson, Time Patrol (Riverdale, NY, 2010), pp. 229-331 AT p. 328.
Anderson's abiding message. He is the true Historian of Civilizations.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
And JRR Tolkien! I remember him saying similar things in THE LORD OF THE RINGS.
Ad astra! Sean
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