Plik has described the Northwest Union as Faustian. Now he describes the Orion director, Eygar Dreng, as a wizard and a Faust and asks:
"'...with what devil has he made a pact?'" (p. 324)
That has to mean that Dreng has surrendered his moral integrity, "sold his soul," and that the Orion project must have bad consequences but has he and must it? How seriously are we supposed to take Plik's prophecies? - because that is what they are. Divinely inspired prophecies are supposed to be infallible but are Plik's wild utterances inspired by anything more than imagination and alcohol? We will probably finish reading the book but forget precisely what the poet and balladeer said on each of these occasions.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Plik was inspired more by his fears and alcohol, IMO. And I do like the poem Anderson had Plik reciting, which has lines like "Lord beyond eternity" in it. That has stuck in my mind since I first read ORION.
Ad astra! Sean
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