Saturday, 14 June 2025

"The Night Face Called Chaos."

The Night Face, V.

There is much about (different kinds of) "Chaos" in Poul Anderson's works and therefore on this blog but have we noticed before now that "Chaos" is one of the Night Faces in The Night Face? (p. 591) Yes. See Living In Myth.

Just another quick morning post before I dash back into town where a Muslim street trader gives me his take on the war that has sprung up overnight. Internet news and our current "Chaos" are lived. Maybe we have an interstellar civilization in our future or maybe we don't.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Kaor, Paul!

Human affairs are always going to be chaotic because everything is contingent and unpredictable. At most certain broad principles are likely to be mostly true. One being the stern realism of Flavius Vegetius' statement: "If you want peace prepare for war."

Ad astra! Sean

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Sean,

There can be a time when weapons are no longer produced.

Paul.