Roland, the signs, the wind

Thomas Eckhardt thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de
Tue Apr 26 01:20:56 CDT 2016


Has this been mentioned?

"[Pökler] veered into the wind of his long isolation, shuddering terribly."

p. 430


Am 13.04.2016 um 19:31 schrieb Joseph Tracy:
> “Once transected into the realm of Dominus Blicero, Roland found that
> all the signs had turned against him. . . . Lights he had studied 	so
> well as one of you, position and movement, now gathered there at the
> opposite end, all in dance . . . irrelevant dance. None of Blicero’s
> traditional progress, no something new . . . alien. . . . Roland too
> became conscious of the wind, as his mortality had never allowed him.
> Discovered it so . . . so joyful, that the arrow must veer into it.
> The wind had been blowing all year long, year after year, but Roland
> had felt only the secular wind . . . he means, only his personal
> wind. Yet . . . Selena, the wind, the wind’s everywhere. . . .”
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