"The village stood on a bluff overlooking a broad, shallow river and the cottonwoods along the banks." (p. 244)
"...the broad brown river and its trees..." (p. 253)
Compare the locations of the Time Patrol Academy in the Oligocene and the main base of Havig's group in the Pleistocene, both here, and a river in an emulation, here.
Time is like a river.
Deathless says:
"'Time has overtaken me.'" (p. 256)
- and:
"'If I have learned anything in my lifetimes of years...it is that there is no 'always.'" (ibid.)
He departs. Another immortal wanders the world. And Chapter XIII takes us somewhere else.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Now I'm wondering, what was Deathless' original name, before he realized he was not aging like other men and women? I've more than once thought the "immortals" of THE BOAT OF A MILLION YEARS probably lived 40 or 50 years before realizing how peculiar they were.
Ad astra! Sean
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