I have reread, out of order, Chapters XIX and 1-VII and have some recollection of Chapters VIII-XVIII which I will reread. If anything that I now say about later chapters turns out to be mistaken, then I will correct it later. As far as I am aware and can remember, seven of the eight eventual "Survivors" each have an introductory chapter entirely unto themselves, the only exception being Svoboda whose introductory chapter guest stars Hanno although neither of them makes the connection yet.
So far, we have met four of the eight: Hanno, Tu Shan, Aliyat and Svoboda - also Nornagest, Starkadh and Rufus but these three are not Survivors.
I thought that this post was going to be longer but that summarizes the state of play and frees me to do other things like paying workmen and reading about the enigmatic Krishnamurti.
Seek the Tao.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I thought the introductory chapter about Gnaeus Patulcius, whom Hanno tracked down in the 1930's, esp. interesting! Patulcius might well have been working in the Byzantine civil service on some of the occasions when Hanno was in Constantinople, but they seemingly never crossed paths.
Ad astra! Sean
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