Saturday 22 May 2021

Reality

A Danellian:
 
"'But take heart. Reality is. You are among those who guard it.'"
-Poul Anderson, The Shield Of Time (New York, 1991), 1990 A. D., p. 435.
 
The feeling after an Alori festival:
 
"Life had been, had struggled, and died. Reality was - no man needed more."
-The Peregrine, CHAPTER XVII, p. 156.
 
A resonance across timelines. Today will be busy so blogging might be slight.

3 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

I am skeptical tho, about the logic and consistency of what the Danellian said. If "raality," that which exists, needs to be guarded, then how truly REAL is the universe we see now? A mutable reality which can change virtually at a whim can hardly use "is" to describe itself.

Ad astra! Sean

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Sean,

Despite their similarity, these two texts give different significances to the term, "Reality..."

Paul.

Sean M. Brooks said...

Koar, Paul!

They do, and I balked at the implications of what the Danellian said!

Ad astra! Sean