See Seafarers And Spacefarers.
"...any one sea captain would have kept his Bowditch and his souvenirs." (2, p. 14)
Should that read "..any old sea captain..."?
When David and Tamara Ryerson visit David's father on his Hebridean island, the wind howls from the Pole and strikes them so that they reel. The sea crashes. "For a moment's primitive terror...," (p. 13) David imagines his father's God roaring in the deep. More appropriate might be the Third God of Ys, Lir? David must fight the wind to reach the cottage door. The message is the hostility of nature on Earth as, in later chapters, in space: the "enemy stars."
4 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Actually, I thought of David's father as being a sternly austere Calvinist Presbyterian of a kind once characteristic in Scotland. He and David would be more likely to think of the Leviathan from the book of Job.
Ad astra! Sean
Right. It is an Anderson fan that thinks of Lir.
Kaor, Paul!
Yes, but I was thinking more of what metaphors would be thought of by the characters in one of Anderson's stories. Malcolm Ryerson would use the Anglican Authorized Version of the Bible and the works of Kipling for that.
Ad astra! Sean
Drat, "Magnus" not "Malcolm" was the name of David Ryerson's father.
Sean
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