You know, when I read your writing, there's often an innocuous sounding phrase that just gets to me. In this excerpt, it was this one:
The sky above was blue and unruffled.
Of course, I still haven't seen enough DS9 to know whether this is in character, but Garak, as in all your writing, has a compelling presence that makes him worth reading about, even when I know nothing about him.
Oh and something else about the phrase made think of something. My perception of ST is that whenever they do an episode of ST set on Earth, it's always blindingly sunny, with a very bright blue sky. I don't know whether that's because it's always California, and of course, it doesn't match my perception of Earth weather (mustn't grumble), but I entirely sympathised with Garak's watering eyes, because ST Earth has that effect on me too. (Of course, ST experts will then point out a hundred episodes where this isn't the case, but I'll re-iterate that this is my perception which doesn't have to agree with any shared reality.)
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You know, when I read your writing, there's often an innocuous sounding phrase that just gets to me. In this excerpt, it was this one:
The sky above was blue and unruffled.
Of course, I still haven't seen enough DS9 to know whether this is in character, but Garak, as in all your writing, has a compelling presence that makes him worth reading about, even when I know nothing about him.
Oh and something else about the phrase made think of something. My perception of ST is that whenever they do an episode of ST set on Earth, it's always blindingly sunny, with a very bright blue sky. I don't know whether that's because it's always California, and of course, it doesn't match my perception of Earth weather (mustn't grumble), but I entirely sympathised with Garak's watering eyes, because ST Earth has that effect on me too. (Of course, ST experts will then point out a hundred episodes where this isn't the case, but I'll re-iterate that this is my perception which doesn't have to agree with any shared reality.)