MDMD(4) - Giant rob'd Beings (108.9-12)

[Alan Westrope]

On Sun, 20 Jul 1997, Doug Millison wrote:

>Chapter 11
>108.9-12 "...behold a Company of Giant rob'd Beings, risen incalculably far
>away over the Horizon, bound this way upon matters forever unexplain'd,
>moving blind and remorseless across the Sea, as if the Island did not
>exist."

>Any suggestions about who or what these Beings represent? They remind me
>somehow of the beings (are they angels? I don't remember exactly where this
>is in GR) in GR. Here, in M&D, the characterizations "blind and
>remorseless" and "matters forever unexplain'd" make them seem sinister.

Yes, I was struck by the resemblance to Basher St. Blaise's angel on p.
151 of GR: "the fiery leagues of face, the eyes, which went towering for
miles, shifting to follow their flight, the irises red as embers fairing
through yellow to white..."

Just one of many Korrespondences between the novels, of course.

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