Dejerine thinks that he should pray:
"Father, forgive me..." (p. 234)
He is quoting Luke 23:34 although he changes the pronoun. Then he quotes:
"For now thou numberest my steps..." (ibid.) (Job 14:16-22)
Two more examples of the Bible in Poul Anderson.
Next, it is as if a nova bursts within Dejerine so that Jill asks what is wrong and whether he is all right. He has had an Andersonian moment of realization.
Dejerine gives us more than our money's worth and brings us to the end of Chapter XXIV, leaving only the AFTERWORD which harks back to the FOREWORD and also ends our record of events in this fictional timeline.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
So many times Anderson quotes from or alludes to the Bible! I can't think of any other SF writer who did that.
Ad astra! Sean
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