One Writer Helping Us To Appreciate Another

We have become familiar with Andersonian moments of realization, e.g.: see Ten Years Later. Sometimes this helps us to recognize and appreciate such moments in works by other authors, e.g.: Detective Sergeant Lewis' casual remark about a domestic matter has a dramatic effect on his superior:

"For several seconds Morse sat utterly immobile in his chair, as if petrified before the sight of the Gorgon. And for the same several seconds Lewis wondered if his chief had suffered some facial paralysis."

-Colin Dexter, "The Inside Story" IN Dexter, Morse's Greatest Mystery (London, 1994), pp. 165-218 AT PART THREE, p. 201.

Thus ends that page. Having read Poul Anderson and indeed having also read previous Morse-Lewis exchanges, we can almost write the opening sentence of the following page for ourselves. In it, Morse smiles beatifically and tells his old friend that he has:

"'...done it again!'" (p. 202)

That wind, Storm Dave, will be blowing all night. Do I wander away from the point? Yes, but I always return to it.

Good night.