AtD - Anarchy vs Terror

[kelber at mindspring.com]

SPOILER, p.114-118










I took this description to be sort of a negative (photographically speaking) image of what's actually happening in the modern world: the shrinking of the polar icecaps due to global warming.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: John BAILEY <JBAILEY at theage.com.au>

More interesting to me was the way
>P describes the polar entry points to the Telluric interior as freezing
>over, sealing up, and the interior itself as being a far darker, more
>dismal place than it was in M&D. It's easy to infer that soon enough
>those icecaps will be solid, and the interior will be inaccessible.
>
>It does a nice job of extending that M&D theme of modernity
>rationalising away the possibility of magic, of wonder, of the
>impossible. Which of course is something that runs through every one of
>P's novels.
>
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