This concluding chapter begins:
"Fall comes early in the High Sierra." (p. 229)
- and ends:
"They walked on into the autumn." (p. 234)
P. 235 is a picture of a couple walking away from us among trees with falling leaves.
Have we got the message yet? This chapter is the end of a novel and of the seven-volume Dominic Flandry series and is set late in Flandry's life. The Chronology in The Earth Book Of Stormgate (New York, 1979) had stated "story on Flandry's old age planned." (p. xii)
Especially in the concluding chapters, the illustrations are particularly appropriate to the narrative at that point in the text. I will have to reread the text of Chapter XIV tomorrow, a new month.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Fortunately, five or six years later, we see Sir Dominic and Lady Miriam one last time in THE GAME OF EMPIRE, even if they only cameo in that story.
And, with antisenescence, Flandry could hope to live another forty years.
Ad astra! Sean
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