In The Guardians Of Time, Everard is alone in his apartment, then is visited respectively by Cynthia Denison and John Sandoval.
In "The Sorrow of Odin the Goth," Carl Farness twice visits Everard's apartment in 1980. In "The Year of the Ransom," Carlos Navarro once visits Everard's apartment.
Thus, ten scenes are set in the apartment.
1954 Everard alone
sometime between '54 and '60 Cynthia Denison, then John Sandoval
1980 Carl Farness twice
24 May 1987 Carlos Navarro
1987 Guion
1988 Tamberly phones
1990 Tamberly phones
1990 Guion
10 comments:
Using the same apartment for 50 years, and appearing to be exactly the same age, might excite interest and comment. The 90's are probably the last period he can use it.
Not to mention that by the 90's, surveillance cameras were becoming increasingly ubiquitous... and they'd be seeing the un-aging Everard too.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
And Everard would have to give up his favorite apartment soon, and change his name and "persona." And find another place to use as a base. Which is what Hanno the Phoenician often had to do in THE BOAT OF A MILLION YEARS.
Ad astra! Sean
Though given the Patrol's resources, establishing a new identity (the way spies do, essentially) would be trivially easy.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
I agree, but people can get ATTACHED to where they live.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean: true, and if you're very old (as Everard is by the last times we see him in his NYC apartment) you get even more attached to familiar settings. I imagined that after he and Wanda married, they established a home -somewhere-. Probably in the late 20th or first half of the 21st centuries. I finessed this in my Time Patrol story by having them visiting the van Sarawaks on Venus.
(From SM Stirling.)
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
I agree. And we do see hints in the stories that Everard was very old, in his personal time line, by the later Patrol stories. And, yes, despite his reluctance, Manse had to move, probably after marrying Wanda.
Finished rereading "The Sorrow of Odin the Goth." A very powerful but grim story, probably the grimmest of Anderson's Time Patrol tales.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean: THE SORROW OF ODIN THE GOTH is also the most "saga-like" of the Time Patrol stories. It's a story of inexorable fate forcing people to do things they desperately don't want to do, revenge is the first obligation a man has, and nearly everyone dies. In that way it's rather like the movie "The Northman", which came out recently. I sort of recommend it -- it really tries to be authentic, not only in physical details, but in the psychology of the Old Norse worldview. Which makes it feel very, very strange from a modern p.o.v. And sort of depressing!
(From SM Stirling.)
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
You are right, "The Sorrow of Odin the Goth" is the most sagalike of the Time Patrol stories. However badly and imperfectly the Scandinavians, like all of us, lived up to it, the teaching of Christ on the need for mercy, forgiveness, and the making of peace, etc., must have been a big reason why the Scandinavians gave up paganism to become Christians. Christianity gave the a way of getting beyond the need for revenge and blood feuds.
Of course there were other, more mundane reasons for becoming Christians!
Ad astra! Sean
Sean: Scandinavia was converted "from the top down", often by rather bloody coercion. Monarchs supported Christianity because it gave them a more secure and efficient system of rule, and also because it made them "salonfahig" to other Christian monarchs.
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