Wind often hoots but here is an occasion that we have missed so far.
Janne Floris as the goddess, Niaerdh, addressing the prophetess, Veleda, recites "olden wisdom," (Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8) then uses it to urge a new message of peace with Rome instead of continued war. However, Veleda's oath with Heidhin will not allow such an about face.
During the silence in which Floris subvocalizes to Everard that there is a crisis:
"Light had left the window and cold crept inward. The wind hooted." (p. 615)
Darkness, cold and hooting wind all agree that there is a crisis. The characters approach their fork in time.
7 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I reread Ecclesiastes 3.1-8 and verse 8 was esp. appropriate. Yet again we see how familiar Anderson was with the Scriptures, far more so than most SF writers.
Fallen behind, trying to catch up.
Ad astra! Sean
Is there a time to hate?
Paul: yup.
BTW, note that some physicists think that events in the future can affect events in the past -- it's part of the effort to reconcile quantum mechanics with relativity.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
Oh, boy! And I had such a hard repeatedly struggling to read Stephen Hawking's A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME. So far, I've never gotten further than page 46.
Ad astra! Sean
Well, I just read condensations. I'm not good enough at math to read the originals!
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
Nor I, re mathematics. Condensations is probably the best way to go--at least sometimes.
Ad astra! Sean
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