The Pey D'Or (scroll down) is in Kemper/Quimper. (See image.)
We read that food and rent have gone up but not wages, that the food-growers' association cannot keep out cheap grain from the South, that the city Ligues, the Trademaster and other damned officials should be scrapped, that people should sink or swim or cooperate freely if they want to but with the right to opt out and that's how they do it in the Northwest Union. Strange new notions circulate.
We learn that languages have changed so much that sailors from the Northwest Union do not speak Angley.
The concluding paragraph displays several points of interest:
"'It became a memorable evening, though not one that anybody remembered clearly. A few did recall that toward the end, Ronica Birken leaped onto a table, beaker aloft, and shouted something about Orion rising. Mikli Karst was quick to hush her. Nobody knew what it signified. Foreigners had peculiar ways." (p. 121)
Try shouting, "Erinn go Brach!" in an English pub. (No one will understand - or someone might and object.)
Turning the page, we find that CHAPTER NINE returns us to Terai Lohannaso and that is too big a change of scene and perspective for this time of night.
There are wheels within wheels here.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
And of course Kemper/Quimper was to be important in another of Anderson's works some years after ORION SHALL RISE was published!
And the best way to keep food prices from rising too quickly would be to increase the supply of food. So I can't agree with the attempts of the food growers association at keeping cheaper grain out.
Ronica Birkken's indiscretion about "Orion" reminded me of how Pippin Took was being too talkative about how Bilbo Baggins' "disappeared" from the Shire at The Prancing Pony tavern in THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING.
Ad astra! Sean
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