On the riverboat, Water Blossom, Diana talks with Axor, then with Targovi disguised as a performing animal, then with "...a human male..." (p. 304) In other words, with a man! "...human male..." is a funny way to put it but that is because there are three other intelligent species aboard and we should never forget that they are aliens. Axor gives Diana "...a quizzical glance..." (p. 300) Surely Wodenite body language should not exactly parallel that of a human being?
Diana reinforces my use of "faith" to mean "trust" in the previous post when she reflects that:
"She knew so little thus far. She had in fact, she realized, acted on faith - faith in Targovi - with hope for adventure and accomplishment, but damn small charity." (ibid.)
Targovi's hope to reap ample reward for defeating the Magnusson Rebellion seems hopelessly unrealistic at this stage in the game of empire but we are reading a thriller in which a satisfactory outcome is to be expected. I am not about to defeat Putin or (fill in the blank)... We will start to disagree if we try to identify who the other current bad guys are.
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