Eagle And Aurochs

The Corridors Of Time, CHAPTER FIVE.

Here is a bird of prey that I do not think that we have noticed before:

"High overhead wheeled an eagle, the young light like gold on its wings." (p. 38)

Whatever their means of travel into the past - and Poul Anderson's time corridors are unique -, any time traveller must have a moment when it suddenly hits him that he is indeed here and now. When Storm tells Lockridge that a remote but thunderous "...bass bellow..." (ibid.) is not a bull but an aurochs:

"The fact that he was really here, now, personally, stabbed into him." (ibid.)

This should remind Anderson's readers of the corresponding moment for Manse Everard of the Time Patrol, quoted in full at least three times before on this blog:

Reality And Interpretation

Not A Museum

In The Past

 And we also find that we have compared Lockridge's and Everard's moments before:

The First Moment