Flandry to Djana:
"'The circumstances could be more promising. The big computer should've replied instantly to a distress call.' He paused. The wind blew, the stars jeered." (p. 244)
Inevitably. Usually the wind somehow comments. This time, it underlines Flandry's pause while the stars comment. "Same difference," as some say. We are always conscious that we are reading a carefully constructed text, not just a unidimensional recitation of fictional events.
Of course, Flandry's pause precedes his next step, not just a giving up which is all that Djana would have been capable of. They must investigate but that takes them into the next chapter and me into "To Be Continued Tomorrow" mode. If I start to reread CHAPTER TEN now, then I will find something in it to post about so I must close the book now. There are other books to read, after all.
Good night or whatever part of the day it is where you are.
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