Sandra Tamarin remembers her time with Nicholas van Rijn on Diomedes. If we are reading The Technic Civilization Saga consecutively, then we remember Sandra and van Rijn on Diomedes. In the original publication order, we might have read War Of The Wing-Men/The Man Who Counts before Mirkheim but otherwise would have waited to read it in The Earth Book Of Stormgate.
Van Rijn was:
"...almost unendurably primitive...'" (p. 56)
- and therefore at the same time possessed a:
"...raw vigor [that] had saved both their lives..." (ibid.)
We welcome one character's perception of another, especially when it is presented as from a later perspective.
Today there have been two posts and, according to my computer, 21516 page views so far with just under three quarters of an hour left until midnight.
For some of us in Lancaster, today has been a long May Day celebration. Tomorrow, three of us will travel early to the North East for a Wesak celebration so there will probably be even fewer posts. On Tuesday, we, editorially speaking, in other words I, will visit Andrea over the Old Pier Bookshop - whose commentaries on living are worth hearing, especially now.
We read and live.
Addendum: Final page view count, 23942.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
One of the oddities of the stories showing us Nicholas van Rijn is how we almost never see things from his POV. Except once, in "Margin of Profit."
I'm glad this blog has been getting so many visits/readers!
Hope this uploads.
Ad astra! Sean
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