Rugi's inner thoughts as human children and their dogs torment him:
"Night and rain and the west wind crying in high trees, a cool wet softness of grass and the wavering little fire, the grave eyes of my father and the dear lost face of my mother - Out of the night and the rainy wind and the forest they hewed down, out of the years and the blurring memories and the shadowland of dreams, come to me, mother, come and take me in your arms and carry me home." (p. 12)
Points To Note
(i) Two references to wind.
(ii) "...grass...," not pseudo-grass etc on another planet, as in many later texts.
(iii) Dreams are a shadowland. Rugi does not know the difference between "I dreamed about my mother last night" and "My mother came back last night."
(iv) He prays to his dead mother.
(v) Anderson writes in the introduction that:
"Times change, you can't go home again..." (p. xiii)
See also this theme in earlier posts.
Some evenings, I want to write one last post before reading about the Spanish Civil War, rereading Stieg Larsson and flaking. Tomorrow, another public talk of local interest.
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