The Stars Are Also Fire, 23, got a bit ho-hum. Two guys fight. Poul Anderson novels have their action scenes. As the fight begins:
"Bruno sprang backward and took stance, a monster blot on the pavement luminance. A breeze had arisen, sighting between darkened walls. Lightning had begun to flicker above roofs to the west." (p. 309)
There are luminous pavements on Merseia.
A breeze sighs, walls are darkened, lightning begins to flicker: plenty of Pathetic Fallacy. I will read on, confident that the good guy wins the fight. (The "monster blot" is the bad guy.)
Other reading: James Blish's A Case Of Conscience contains commentary on James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. Apparently, Joyce's Ulysses discusses the Shakespeare Authorship question. I have found Ulysses on-line. How much of my "other reading" will comprise another attempt at Ulysses remains to be seen.
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Kaor, Paul!
Ha! One book I have repeatedly attempted reading has been Stephen Hawking's A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME. I know it's an important work, but I keep getting bogged down and losing interest by page 46. Which is regrettable.
Ad astra! Sean
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