Friday, 10 November 2023

Nikean Sunset

"A Tragedy of Errors."

"Sunset rays turned the hilltop fiery. Farther down, the land was already blue with a dusk through which river, bay, and distant sea glimmered argent. Cloud banks towered in the east, blood-colored, dwarfing the Sawtooth Mountains that marked Hanno's frontier." (p. 518)

Poul Anderson's narratives are full of such descriptions which repay careful rereading. The details this time:

sunset
fiery hilltop
blue dusk
glimmering water
distant sea
red towering clouds
named mountains

Every description is different.

2 comments:

S.M. Stirling said...

I learned a great deal from Poul's descriptions.

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Mr. Stirling!

I could tell from reading your books. Very Andersonian!

Ad astra! Sean