Flandry And Chives On Jupiter

We Claim These Stars, CHAPTER V.

"A blurred green shape said: 'You aneurine, sir,'" (p. 31)

The blurred green shape is Chives, Flandry's Shalmuan servant, and, of course, he says, "Your aneurine, sir."

Their Ymirite guide, Horx, has abandoned them in the Red Spot area, leaving them to die either when the spaceship in which he had been transporting them succumbs to its battering by the Jovian environment or when their food and air run out.

Chives exemplifies that kind of humor in which he, a native of Shalmu, deplores the kind of unsportsmanlike behavior that is only to be expected from "'...a native.'" (p. 33) In Citizen Khan, when Mrs Khan says that they need a plumber for the bathroom and that the neighbor knows a good Polish man, Mr Khan replies, "Not Polish! We must support British workers! I'll get a Pakistani..." (Keep it up, Khan! We love our Poles and Pakistanis.)

Two things have to happen:

Flandry solves the problem of how to escape from their predicament;

after thinking about it, he has a moment of realization -

"'Wait a minute!'" (p. 34)

He does learn something from the expedition:

"The fact that some Ymirites did rescue us proves that the conspiracy, if any, does not involve their whole race."

-CHAPTER VI, p. 36.

 

So onward with the investigation.