Descriptive Passages

Two descriptive passages that we have read past in Seven Conquests:

The Cantina In "Kings Who Die"

a low, noisy room

bullfight posters

dense smoke

tourists

loud clothes

fat faces

3V (future TV in several Poul Anderson works)

a juke wall with a three times life size singer

deafening singing

Herries' Vision Of "One Place Stretching Through Time" (p. 50)

exhausted oil wells

abandoned tanks, pumps and shed

rain and jungle

sea

dry land

"...cold prairie scoured by glacial winds..." (ibid.)

growing warmth

"...a waste of years..." (ibid.)

the time projector on this very spot

after that?

(A very different "time projector" from the one in "Flight to Forever.")