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The Unholy Consult / Trying to remember a turn of phrase in The Great Ordeal
« on: August 24, 2017, 02:34:50 am »
It is possible I am remembering something from the initial Holy War but I would swear it was something mentioned in The Great Ordeal.
I vaguely remember a passage in which a group of men participating in the Ordeal were called something like Herdsmen, Foragers, or Harvesters and the book went on to say this term would later become a holy or revered term.
Does anyone remember this?
It struck me at the time because it basically proved that humanity/civilization would survive enough for a collective memory to exist of the Great Ordeal. It made such an impact on me that I imagined at the time that it was a clue to what Bakker's final volumes set in the future would cover.
I imagined they would show a world in which a religion/belief system had been established based on the events of TGO and TUC, accurate or inaccurate. That we the reader who had "seen" the end of TUC would know what was true and false.
Just goes to show I don't know a damn thing about what Bakker is thinking!!
I vaguely remember a passage in which a group of men participating in the Ordeal were called something like Herdsmen, Foragers, or Harvesters and the book went on to say this term would later become a holy or revered term.
Does anyone remember this?
It struck me at the time because it basically proved that humanity/civilization would survive enough for a collective memory to exist of the Great Ordeal. It made such an impact on me that I imagined at the time that it was a clue to what Bakker's final volumes set in the future would cover.
I imagined they would show a world in which a religion/belief system had been established based on the events of TGO and TUC, accurate or inaccurate. That we the reader who had "seen" the end of TUC would know what was true and false.
Just goes to show I don't know a damn thing about what Bakker is thinking!!