After dinner, Eric Tamarin-Asmundsen and David Falkayn drink whisky and converse and Falkayn smokes a pipe in a study with:
beautifully grained wood panels;
shelves of leather-bound books;
ancestral portraits;
a gun rack;
a desk used for writing high decisions;
an open window;
night outside;
cool, fragrant air;
the sound of the nearby river.
Although, unfortunately, the dinner is not described, the whisky is:
"...a taste of peat smoke from the birthworld of their race." (p. 280)
Thus, all five senses are assuredly present.
6 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Was Windy Rim one of the estates belonging to the Grand Duchy for the use of the reigning Duke or Duchess?
Happy New Year! Sean
Sean,
It was the Tamarins' ancestral seat.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
I thought so, but was not sure. I do recall mention of certain estates being reserved for the use of the reigning Grand Duke/Duchess.
Happy New Year! Sean
Speaking of all five senses, I'm currently working on a scene that takes place during a Gobi Desert dust-storm.
You can't see beyond a few yards, the air is full of talc-fine (but gritty and sharp-edged abrasive) dust, and it gets into -everything-. And the moaning wind covers most sounds, and you have to breathe through a cloth and even so you get coughing fits.
All the senses are functioning, but not well!
A negative version of the kind of scene that PA usually describes.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
As Paul said, what you described is the negative version of what Anderson did!
Ad astra! Sean
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