If I post about some obvious point in a text by Poul Anderson, then there is a good chance that I have posted about it before. However, there remain many unobvious points. Some legendary supernatural beings are vulnerable to sunlight so what would it feel like for them to be caught in it?
"As the first beams touched him, Balamorg screamed. Holger had never heard such agony before... He writhed and changed, gruesomely." (p. 79)
CS Lewis dreams:
"'The morning! The morning!' I cried, 'I am caught by the morning and I am a ghost.' But it was too late. The light, like solid blocks, intolerable of edge and weight, came thundering upon my head."
-CS Lewis, The Great Divorce (London, 1982), pp. 117-118.
Then he woke up.
(Those were imaginative accounts of the fates of a giant and a ghost.)
3 comments:
Holger spun out the conversation until it was too late for B.
Kaor, to Both!
We see something similar in the "Roast Mutton" chapter of THE HOBBIT. Gandalf beguiled the trolls who captured the dwarves into wasting time quarreling over how to cook their prisoners until it was too late, and they were turned into stone by the rising sun.
Ad astra! Sean
Yeah, conventionally the foot-soldiers of evil are dumb. This is wishful thinking, by the way.
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