Monday 3 August 2020

People To Whom Things Happen

"'...there's a...synchronicity to that crew. They're the sort of people things happen around; threatening things.'"
-"The Hall of the Mountain King," CHAPTER THREE, p. 27.

"'[Flandry] is precisely the type to whom such things occur.'"
-Poul Anderson, Ensign Flandry IN Anderson, Young Flandry (Riverdale, NY, 2010), pp. 193-365 AT CHAPTER TWELVE, p. 280.

Maybe some characters sense who the central characters are?!

As Flandry listens to his enemies discussing him and his activities, the winds loudens, signifying a growing threat. When Ydwyr dismisses Morioch, wishing him a good hunt, the sky darkens, lightening flames, thunder bawls, wind yammers, rain gallops and its drops smoke...

Pathetic fallacy lives in Anderson's works.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

A growing threat first to Flandry, and then, unbeknownst to Ydywr the Seeker, to MERSEIA itself? We both know the Terran was to be a uniquely formidable and successful enemy of the Roidhunate!

AD astra! Sean