"Clouds drove low over Dordoyn. Their grayness veiled the heights and turned somber the hues of autumn on the steeps beneath." (p. 300)
So far, the sense of sight: low gray clouds; autumn hues.
This opening paragraph continues:
"Wind wailed, a sound as cold as the air itself." (ibid.)
Sound and bodily sensation.
"Damp odors blew about, in between spatters of rain." (ibid.)
Scent and a spattering sound.
"Roads had become rivers of mire, squelching to weary hoofbeats." (ibid.)
More sounds. Thus, a total of four senses.
The second paragraph presents a place name and a person but, before that, we have appreciated the weather and a season.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
While some, like us, can appreciate these descriptions of nature and Anderson's use of them in pathetic fallacies, other readers have not. They have complained that writers like Anderson and Tolkien "slowed" down the action in the stories with all these descriptions and poems (that last being esp. true of Tolkien). Some readers want only non stop action, derring do, and adventure. I see nothing wrong with that, in itself, Anderson and Tolkien gave us plenty of that as well!
Ad astra! Sean
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