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.

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1 comment:

  1. Sean M. Brooks17 July 2025 at 17:11

    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

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