Thursday, 17 July 2025

Brothers

Poul Anderson's Brain Wave gives us a hint of Animal Farm and also of The Planet Of The Apes. However, the rifle-wielding gorilla does not speak English. M'Wanzi, a black revolutionary leader, has devised:

"'...a common language of clicks and grunts...'" (7, p. 68)

The brothers of the forest and the brothers of the fields will:

"Drive the white oppressors back beyond the sea!"(p. 67)

A great revolution incorporates many subsidiary revolutions. Each page discloses a new implication of the novel's premise. Then we are back to Peter Corinth in New York where men of good will must respond to the collapse of national government.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

And the new masters will be no better than the old ones. It's far more likely than not that new regimes will be worse than the old ones. The pre-Revolutionary Old Regime of Louis XVI was far milder than Robespierre and his Jacobins or the military dictatorship of Napoleon.

Revolutions? (Vomits)

Ad astra! Sean