The Technic History And Lancaster

When I see pigeons land beside the statue of Queen Victoria in our Dalton Square, I think of Ythrians.

When I see Sikhs in Lancaster, I think of Commander Ranjit Singh who assumes command of a disabled spaceship and orders Ensign Flandry to man the gun in Section Four in Ensign Flandry.

I used to think of ways to revise The Technic Civilization Saga but now I more or less accept the way that its volumes are organized, particularly Volume IV-VII:

IV: the three Young Flandry novels;

V: 2 non-Flandry instalments + the 1st 4 Captain Flandry instalments;

VI: the 2nd 4 Captain Flandry instalments;

VII: 2 "Admiral Flandry" novels + 4 post-Imperial instalments.

Very systematic.

Writing Dulled Colour, I had to check the spelling of Mark Studdock's surname in CS Lewis' That Hideous Strength. Now I am rereading Lewis. Regular blog readers know that "Other Reading" is a feature of evenings here.

Addendum: Seeing a Sikh man seated in Dalton Square, I asked him to remind me of the five signs or "K"'s of Sikhism because I could only remember four. He had to look up the fifth on his phone!