Lady Sandra Tamarin thinks:
"Is our time past? Is the whole wild, happy age of the pioneers? Are we today crossing the threshold of the future?"
David Falkayn thinks:
"This was a grand era in its way. I too will miss it."
- see Hopewell.
Dominic Flandry reflects that:
"He would much rather have lived in the high and spacious days of the trader princes, when no distance and no deed looked too vast for man, than in this twilight of empire."
-see Tide And Twilight.
Daven Laure, a Ranger of the Commonalty, refers to the future version of English, spoken by the earlier characters, as "...ancient Anglic."
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Kaor, Paul!
And I was reminded yet again of WE CLAIM THESE STARS, where we see such elegiac passages as
Flandry's anxious reflections about Admiralty Center and his belief that Manuel's Empire was the Indian summer of Terran civilization.
Happy New Year! Sean
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