NPPF: Notes C.1-4 - C.42

[David Morris]

--- Scott Badger <lupine at ncia.net> wrote:
>
> Jasper:
> > pg 75
> > "Parachuting had become a popular sport": parachuting == escaping?  What's
the deal with Zemblans and parachuting?  It's a pretty odd national pastime. A
person travels with limited volition from a moving origin to an uncertain
destination.  One can steer to an extent but one cannot return. Death is a
distinct possibility.
> 
> Not just parachuting but other forms of flying arise in PF too. Parachuting
also comes up in Ada a couple times I think, though I'm not sure what to make
of it either.

Well there's something sort of silly-victorian about this pasttime, and also in
the sport-flying, as in a "those daring young men in their flying machines"
thing.  It reminds me of Charles' "powerful Grambler" too, a silly symbol of
potency.

http://www.famouslocations.com/images/movies/thosemagnif_.jpg

But don't forget that Charles' father died in a flying accident while sports
flying, which may be related to the death of Shade's bird-father...

David Morris


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