Tuesday 26 September 2023

Desai

The Day Of Their Return3.

Desai is our guy.

He invokes an interesting range of deities:

"God knows the present needs more of me than I have to give." (p. 85)

"God!" (ibid.)

"Krishna!" (p. 93)

"Siva have mercy." (p. 98)

He is a linking character. In an otherwise atrocious Batman film, one newly introduced character was a business contact of Bruce Wayne (the Batman), the employer of Selina Kyle (the Catwoman) and the political backer of Oswald Cobblepot (the Penguin). Similarly, Desai:

remembers his conversation with Uldwyr;
converses with Aycharaych;
replays his conversation with Jowett;
looks out, at some length, across Nova Roma and Aeneas;
reflects on the Terran Empire -

- all in a single chapter. A guy that we want to see a lot more of.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Problem is, civil servants like Chunderban Desai generally lead quiet lives. They seldom make much of a splash, or even want to!

Still, we are lucky to see so much of Desai in THE DAY OF THEIR RETURN.

Ad astra! Sean