Jordan's story about the flood

[wyrdwritere]

The moment that sums the great flood for me was completely mundane, yet all the more uncanny for being so astonishingly unlikely. I can recall the fights, the desperate people, the strangeness of Laudan streets becoming branches of the Thaims, the floating bodies, the monsters the bodies became, the sadness, the fear, the danger, but that all

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[millari]

While I could imagine this being confusingly out of left field if I didn't know what it comes from, it's still got such a wonderful atmospheric quality to it that I think it would still suck me in. It's got so much beautiful imagery in it, and Jordan, in his camera-like POV, does seem taken with it, but also, he seems as distant from it as that cat on the roof. It feels like one of those frozen moments you might see in a Scorcese film, where we're allowed to experience the strange, eerie beauty than can be found in chaos.

[wyrdwritere]

I was thinking more Kurosawa than Scorcese, but thanks. That's definitely what I had in mind. Thanks for the lovely comment.