History is full of times of hope like during a revolution or immediately after a successful revolution.
"'Why should anybody put everything at stake for the revolution, if he doesn't hope you'll bring him a better day?'"
-The Rebel Worlds, X, p. 89.
"'The glorious revolution was necessary,' Patel declared. 'Emperor Hans restored order and purged corruption.'"
-Poul Anderson, The Game Of Empire IN Anderson, Flandry's Legacy (Riverdale, NY, 212), pp. 189-453 AT CHAPTER TWO, p. 220.
"'...I could be a Yankee soldier of fortune, in part starry-eyed over the liberation, in part hoping somehow to cash in on it -...'"
-Poul Anderson, "Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks" IN Anderson, Time Patrol (Riverdale, NY, 2010), pp. 229-331 AT p. 275.
It is always a pleasure to quote from the Technic History and the Time Patrol in the same post. I include the sonnet because it describes the effects of "Time" yet ends optimistically with "...times, in hope..."
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
And most revolutions have not been successful or beneficial. And that bit about the Yankees soldier reminded me of William Walker, whom we see mentioned in THE DEVIL'S GAME.
Ad astra! Sean
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