Rereading a novel by Poul Anderson, we notice not macro-features like the plot but micro-features like anything interesting in the text and we always find the latter although we must remember to check whether we have posted about any particular detail before. Thus, we appreciate a troll woman's summary of life, beginning:
"'Hurry and hurry...'" (p. 22)
See:
She says that:
autumn leaves hurry on rainy wind;
snow hurries out of the sky;
life hurries to death;
gods hurry to oblivion.
Autumn leaves mean change and death. Snow symbolizes transience. ("Where are the snows of yesteryear?") Gods personify life. It is all about life and the imminence of death.
Our old friend, the wind, is ever present. When Imric rides to change the child, a storm is mountainous, lightning is runes and:
"Wind hooted and howled." (p. 23)
What else was it going to do?
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Ominous, menacing, tumultuous!
Ad astra! Sean
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