"Had that summer really been so golden...?" (p. 479)
I have quoted this line several times before. See here. Scroll down.
There is a similar line in an Ian Fleming novel:
"In my memory of those days the sun is always shining..."
-Ian Fleming, The Spy Who Loved Me (London, 1980), three, p. 34.
Fleming's narrator acknowledges that it must have rained but she cannot remember it.
Although "Star of the Sea" is an installment of the Time Patrol series and The Spy Who Loved Me is a James Bond novel, these lines reflect a universal human experience, transcending fictional genres. Like Shakespeare's sonnets, they address memory and time.
2 comments:
One's emotional state often colors memory -- to the point of modifying the recollection of things like the weather.
Kaor, Paul!
"The Spy Who Loved Me" is not one of my favorite James Bond stories. There was precious little in the story about SPY work!
Ad astra! Sean
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