(There are more cover illustrations for "Inside Earth" than we can use.)
We quoted Macbeth.
Now the alien narrator quotes Hamlet:
"The time is out of joint
"O cursed spite,
"That ever I was born
"To set it right."
- as did Manse Everard:
"'The time is out of joint and you can't set it right today. You can't.'"
-Poul Anderson, "Star of the Sea" IN Anderson, Time Patrol (Riverdale, NY, December 2010), pp. 467-640 AT 14, A.D. 43, p. 593.
We find unexpected connections.
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Kaor, Paul!
Or we find reminders of how Anderson was a fan of Shakespeare and enjoyed quoting from or alluding to his plays. To say nothing of how he was also a fan of the works of Kipling and Doyle.
Merry Christmas! Sean
Merry Christmas, too.
Although if shepherds were out watching their flocks by night in Galilee, it most certainly not December 25th.
At that time of year, the flocks are in stone pens near the lowland villages. The shepherds take them upslope in the summer. -Then- they're out watching their flocks by night and scaring off wolves and sheep-kidnappers so forth.
In fact, Christians stole December 25th from the cult of Sol Invictus...
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
Yes, but the Church had to choose a day for celebrating the birth of Christ, and December 25, which was also the winter solstice in the Julian calendar, was as good a day as any other.
The Gregorian reform of the calendar, correcting accumulated errors in the Julian, moved the solstice to December 21, but Christmas was not moved back because everyone was used to December 25.
Merry Christmas! Sean
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