While Manse Everard ponders how to apprehend Exaltationist time criminals twenty six years earlier, his Tyrian guide, Pum, says:
"'I think...my lord intends to do battle, in a strange realm where wizards are his foes.'" (p. 320)
A strange realm: the past.
Wizards: time travellers.
Thus, Pum has seen what is happening. He just needs to be told the details.
That is a good quotation from Pum, worth posting about, except that I find that I have already posted about it four times. See here.
It is time for me to return to other reading before entering the realm of Morpheus. Tomorrow, Monday, should be gym in the morning and Zen in the evening (choir for Sheila) with maybe some posting in between.
Everard's dialogue with Varagan in The Shield Of Time is noteworthy but we have not got there yet.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I'm a slow reader, meaning I'm still reading SAURON DEFEATED, a collection of texts by JRR Tolkien, edited by his son Christopher. Currently reading Tolkien's abortive novel THE NOTION CLUB PAPERS, his attempt at writing SF using the idea of time traveling via dreams. That is, some of the characters get "true seeings" from the remote past, both pictorial and in texts set in languages and scripts needing to be translated/deciphered.
Ad astra! Sean
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