"Winter night lay over the South Wilwidh Ocean."
-The Game of Empire, CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO, p. 445.
Brechdan stands and salutes the dazzling light of the sun Korych whereas Tachwyr sits in a stony room beneath the flying moon Neihevin, the lurid light of the Valenderay nebula, the speeding glints of satellites generating forcefields to guard against supernova radiation and a few forlorn stars.
Brechdan from his terrace sees morning mists, distant glaciers and a wheeling fangryf whereas Tachwyr in his islet stronghold hears crashing seas and shrilling wind.
Pathetic fallacy gone mad!
5 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
And esp. appropriate in Tachwyr's case, in his hour of despondency, as he reviewed the failure of Merseia's latest plot against the Empire.
Ad astra! Sean
Think how different the Technic history would have been if Flandry had died in that crash in ENSIGN FLANDRY!
We would never have heard of him. Someone else would have taken the spotlight and done different things.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling and Paul!
Mr. Stirling: Most likely it would have been catastrophically different. The Merseian scheme to lure the Empire into concentrating so many of its fleets near Saxo would have led to their destruction when the star Saxo exploded.
Paul: However, there's the of Anderson writing stories about Flandry before he wrote ENSIGN FLANDRY. And those stories presupposed the Empire not suffering a ruinous catastrophe at Saxo.
Merry Christmas! Sean
Correction: "There's the PROBLEM of Anderson..."
Sean
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