We notice the wind during a pause in the dialogue. I want to post about yet another reference to the wind in an Anderson work but first search the blog and find that I have twice before (here and here) posted about this very passage better than I would have been able to do this evening after cheese and onion pie followed by cheescake with ice cream at the Water Witch (also here) on Lancaster Canal.
In any screen adaptations of Poul Anderson's works, it will be essential that all of these winds are heard on the soundtrack and also that they last long enough to have at least a subliminal effect on their auditors. This conversational silence filled by wind, surf and bird cries captures the conflict between the Stellar Union and Alori ways of life, whether or not we consciously realize this while reading or even hearing.
We approach the end of The Peregrine and of Anderson's Psychotechnic History.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
That makes sense to me, good filmed adaptations of Anderson's stories making an effort to have audiences hear some of those winds.
Ad astra! Sean
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