Is everyone born free, as Lockridge suggests? Storm responds:
"'Free to do what? Ninety percent of this species are domestic animals by nature.'"
-CHAPTER TWO, p. 20.
Nicholas van Rijn says that he and his colleagues are wild animals, doing what they want or what is right, but then asks with scorn whether the millions living in the city that curves around the Earth are free.
Lockridge asks Storm:
"'...did you start the cult of the Goddess to get the idea of peace into men?'"
-CHAPTER FIVE, 45.
We remember a Time Patrol agent who did transform a warlike goddess into a peaceful one. But Storm scorns peace, proclaiming that the Triple Goddess includes Death.
These are comparisons with the Technic History and the Time Patrol, Poul Anderson's two main series.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I think you persist in misunderstanding why Old Nick was so angry and scornful. The full context of his remarks makes it plain his anger derived from frustration over how often human beings were willing to submit to tyranny as long as the despotic regime "took care" of the people it ruled. And van Rijn several examples of what he meant.
Ad astra! Sean
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