See:
On The Beach, 11 August 2015
On The Beach, 18 August 2019
"They walked along the beach. It trembled underfoot with the rage of the sea. There was a grinding under the snort and roar of surf, as if the world's teeth ate rock." (p. 134)
Does the sea feel and experience rage? No.
Does it rage, if we use that word as a verb? Yes. This does not imply that it experiences anything.
Do we imagine that the sea god, Lir, rages? Certainly.
That further detail of the world eating rocks reinforces the sense of a pagan experience of nature.
See:
Pathetic Fallacy And Pagan Experience
Roots Of Paganism
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
That line about "There was a grinding under the snort and roar of surf, as if the world's teeth ate rock" caught my eye! Very nice, I thought. Yes, Anderson was a better, more poetic writer than contemporaries like Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke.
Ad astra! Sean
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