Carpe Diem – Chapter 10

Orbit
Interdicted World I-2796-893-44

In which Miri and Val Con make landfall.

The “Dictionary of Phrase and Fable” Miri recalls is likely to be a descendant of the one published in the 19th century by E. Cobham Brewer, which has been a friend to many an author since. The 1896 edition, the last on which Brewer himself worked, is available online: here is the front page and here is the entry on “carpe diem”.

Although some details will be forthcoming later, we never have got the full story of how Val Con came to converse with an Yxtrang, though the authors have made a number of attempts at setting it out. On Splinter Universe, the website where the authors talk about paths not taken and stories never completed, there’s a post about that, but the link might be better saved for the next time the topic arises.

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