I can state from experience that:
thunder sounds like the passage of Thor;
the storm feels like a literal Pathetic Fallacy for the state of the world - climate change, pandemic and irreconcilable conflicts.
Things will get worse before they get better or will just get worse.
"The last thing he heard was thunder. It sounded like the hoofs of horses bearing westward the Hunnish midnight."
-Poul Anderson, "The Sorrow of Odin the Goth" IN Anderson, Time Patrol (Riverdale, NY, 2010), pp. 333-465 AT 374, p. 465.
Posted after midnight.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I agree, loud thunder can be very THOR like! I have very bad hearing, but I still remember with INTEREST how a really LOUD thunder clap woke me up.
And Robert Zubrin discusses in his book THE CASE FOR SPACE what I believe to be PRACTICAL ways of handling environmental problems.
I just hope we don't end like what we see in "Murphy's Hall" or "In Memoriam"! Or in "Welcome" for that matter.
Ad astra! Sean
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