Kyra, The Bible And The Wind

Harvest Of Stars, 40.

Kyra reflects that, in the Solar System, there is:

"...nowhere a place for the son of man to lay his head or the daughter hers." (p. 387)

- and asks:

"...what shall it profit?" (ibid.)

- if various parts of the System are colonized.

I leave it to the reader to note which Biblical passages are quoted here. (Well, the first is in the attached image.)

Kyra catalogues the uninhabitability of the Solar System:

barren wastes

crematorium heat

tomb cold

lethal radiation

unbreathable air

or no air

Quite a list. We are adapted to only a single environment.

Kyra ends this chapter by asking the wind, "'...who knows?'" (p. 390) The wind has commented so often that perhaps it is appropriate that for once instead it is questioned.