The Time Traveller tells his dinner guests that he has travelled into tomorrow. Two Time Patrol agents agree that tomorrow they will cope. Turning the page from Everard's and Floris' conversation, we return to a time when people lived with the seasons:
"Winter brought rain, snow, rain again, flogged by harsh winds, weather that raged on into the springtime."
-"Star of the Sea," 3, p. 494.
Rain, snow and wind - Anderson readers have learned to notice the wind and indeed this one plays an active role!
Rivers gorge, meadows flood, swamps overflow, grain is doled, livestock huddles, shivers and is killed, hunting is resumed, the attitude of the gods is questioned, wind drives clouds, skirls and snarls, stars flicker, branches toss and creak, night is clear and cold, fire roars, flames leap, sparks whirl, light gleams, divine images loom, a boar roasts and so on. People live with nature.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
It's more accurate to say that thru out most of human history people tried to cope with nature.
Ad astra! Sean
Living in northern Europe 'with nature' was... how shall we put it... a bit of a challenge.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
That's exactly one of the challenges humans had to cope with.
Ad astra! Sean
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