Jack Havig tells Robert Anderson:
"...that earlier decadences were overrated, or at least consisted of tight-knit upper classes which didn't welcome strangers."
-There Will Be Time, V, p. 51.
Meanwhile, where do time travelers (seem to) come from and return to?
Havig:
"...would return, as if out of night..." (p. 50)
Carl Farness/the Wanderer/the Grey One:
"...strode through the shadows, out the door, into the rain and the wind."
-Poul Anderson, "The Sorrow of Odin the Goth " IN Anderson, Time Patrol (Riverdale, NY, 2010), pp. 333-465 AT 372, p. 459.
Havig and Farness come from and return to time but the mystery is expressed by night, rain and wind.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Havig had it easier than the Time Patrol agents, the latter needed TIME to disappear while the former only needed to WILL it. Jack Havig could disappear instantaneously while Patrol agents might be seen mounting mysterious "chariots."
Ad astra! Sean
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